hindsightn.
1.
a. (hind-sight) The backsight of a rifle.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > sight > types of
dispart1578
telescopic sight1674
plain sight1686
aim-frontlet1745
hausse1787
foresight1806
gloaming sight1817
night-sight1822
bead1831
leaf1832
backsight1847
globe sight1847
pendulum hausse1850
hindsight1851
tangent scale1859
tangent1861
tangent backsight1862
training pendulum1862
training level1863
peep sight1866
dispart-sight1867
notch sight1867
buck-horn1877
orthoptic1881
aperturea1884
pinball-sighta1884
dispart patch1884
sight bar1884
flap-sight1887
barley-corn1896
ring sight1901
riflescope1902
spotting scope1904
tangent sight1908
Aldis sight1918
wind-sight1923
scope sight1934
gyro-sight1942
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. i. 5 When you squints thro' hind sights.
1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms
b. to knock (or kick) the hindsight out or off: to dispose of or demolish completely. U.S. colloquial.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > bring to ruin or put an end to
undoc950
shendOE
forfarea1000
endc1000
to do awayOE
aquenchc1175
slayc1175
slayc1175
stathea1200
tinea1300
to-spilla1300
batec1300
bleschea1325
honisha1325
leesea1325
wastec1325
stanch1338
corrumpa1340
destroy1340
to put awayc1350
dissolvec1374
supplanta1382
to-shend1382
aneantizec1384
avoidc1384
to put outa1398
beshenda1400
swelta1400
amortizec1405
distract1413
consumec1425
shelfc1425
abroge1427
downthringc1430
kill1435
poisonc1450
defeat1474
perish1509
to blow away1523
abrogatea1529
to prick (also turn, pitch) over the perka1529
dash?1529
to bring (also send) to (the) pot1531
put in the pot1531
wipea1538
extermine1539
fatec1540
peppera1550
disappoint1563
to put (also set) beside the saddle1563
to cut the throat of1565
to throw (also turn, etc.) over the perch1568
to make a hand of (also on, with)1569
demolish1570
to break the neck of1576
to make shipwreck of1577
spoil1578
to knock on (in) the head (also rarely at head)1579
cipher1589
ruinate1590
to cut off by the shins1592
shipwreck1599
exterminate1605
finish1611
damnify1612
ravel1614
braina1616
stagger1629
unrivet1630
consummate1634
pulverizea1640
baffle1649
devil1652
to blow up1660
feague1668
shatter1683
cook1708
to die away1748
to prove fatal (to)1759
to knock up1764
to knock (or kick) the hindsight out or off1834
to put the kibosh on1834
to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835
kibosh1841
to chaw up1843
cooper1851
to jack up1870
scuttle1888
to bugger up1891
jigger1895
torpedo1895
on the fritz1900
to put paid to1901
rot1908
down and out1916
scuppera1918
to put the skids under1918
stonker1919
liquidate1924
to screw up1933
cruel1934
to dig the grave of1934
pox1935
blow1936
to hit for six1937
to piss up1937
to dust off1938
zap1976
1834 W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I. 21 As sure as you saw the fire at the muzzle of his gun, so sure he knocked the creter's hind sight out.
1850 L. H. Garrard Wah-to-Yah (1927) xx. 248 They backed their ears preparatory to kicking the hindsights off the first man that struck them.
1871 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-master x. 87 Ef its rendered right, it'll knock the hind sights off of any rheumatiz you ever see.
1892 Congress. Rec. 1 Apr. 2843/1 The American producer..can knock the hindsights off the producer anywhere else on the face of the earth.
1954 J. A. Weingarten Amer. Dict. Slang 186/2.
2. (ˈhindsight) Seeing what has happened, and what ought to have been done, after the event; perception gained by looking backward: opposed to foresight.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > [noun] > after the event, hindsight
aftersight1596
afterknowledge1631
afterlight1704
hindsight1883
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > [noun] > after the event
back-looking1535
afterlight1704
hindsight1883
1883 Jrnl. Educ. (Univ. of Boston School of Educ.) 17 264 That a school-man so preternaturally gifted with ‘hind-sight’ should have been so defective in ‘fore-sight’.
1895 A. T. Mahan in Cent. Mag. Aug. 631/2 Open to the proverbial retort that hindsight is always better than foresight.
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