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hinder end, ˌhinder-ˈend Sc. and north. dial.
[f. hinder a.1 + end n. In Sc. and north. dial. the two ends of a thing are spoken of as the fore-end and the hinder-end (with short i).]
1. The latter end; the opposite of the fore-end or beginning; spec. the end of life, ultima dies.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §148 Yf thou spende it in y⊇ begynnynge of the yere & shal want in y⊇ hynder ende. 1585Jas. I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 21 In the hinder end of this booke. 1598D. Ferguson Coll. Scot. Prov. (1785) 11 (Jam.) Falsehood made ne'er a fair hinder-end. 1723De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 124 The devil will have you at the hinder end of the bargain. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v., I was born at th' hinderend o' th' year. Mod. Sc. Poor man! he's near his hinder-end.
2. The rear or posterior end; the back of anything. (In Sc. usually hint-end.)
1816Scott Old Mort. viii, Ye preached us..out o' this new city o' refuge afore our hinder end was weel hafted in it. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss., Th' pickin' furk's i' th' hinderend o' th' barn.
3. (Usually pl.) The part of anything (e.g. of corn) which remains after all selecting and sifting operations have been used; leavings. (Also attrib., as hinder-end barley.) Also fig.
1825Brockett, Hinder-ends, refuse of corn—such as remains after it is winnowed. 1825–80Jamieson s.v., 5. The hinder-end o' aw trade, the worst business to which one can betake one's self. 6. The hinder-end o' aw folk, the worst of people. 1842C. Nevile New Tariff 15 Pigs..fed upon hinder-end barley. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v., We send forends to market..and chickens gets th' hinderends. |