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The tank, containing about sixty gallons, and the furnace were placed in what they called the hind boot; the fore boot contained luggage, if any was carried.

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  1. adjective Located at or forming the back or rear; posterior: an animal's hind legs; the hinder part of a steer.
  2. noun A female red deer.
  3. noun Any of several fishes of the genus Epinephelus of Atlantic waters, related to and resembling the groupers.
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  • According to Besant, a hind was one who, residing on a farm, was paid a regular wage for carrying on the work, and handed over the proceeds to the landlord. —  The Life of Captain James Cook
  • Then the wolf killed a hart and a hind, and sewed them in their skins and guided them across the Straits of Messina into the kingdom of Sicily Very dimly, and one by one, little things that had happened in his childhood began to come back to William; but he wondered greatly how he seemed to know this land, where he had never been before. —  The Red Romance Book
  • 'The hind is the daughter of the emperor of Rome, who fled away with yonder knight dressed in a hart skin Joyfully the queen made herself ready, and she soon joined the animals, who had wandered off to a part of the park that was full of rocks and caves. —  The Red Romance Book
  • After a brief moment lost in apparently searching for his hind-legs, he began to dance and frisk about the room as if all his limbs were whalebone and his spirit quicksilver Oh, there's that dog again! —  My Doggie and I
  • The tank, containing about sixty gallons, and the furnace were placed in what they called the hind boot; the fore boot contained luggage, if any was carried. —  Chatterbox, 1905.
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  1. Middle English hinde, short for bihinde, behind, from Old English bihindan; see ko- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English, from Old English.
  3. Alteration of Middle English hine, household servants, possibly from Old English hīne, genitive of hīgan, hīwan, members of a household; see kei-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English hind, hinde, hynde, from Anglo-Saxon hind = Dutch hinde = Middle Low German hinde = Old High German hintā, Middle High German hinde, German hinde, now with added feminine suffix, hindin = Icelandic Swedish Danish hind, a hind; perhaps from the verb representing by Gothic (Moesogothic) hinthan, take, catch, of which Anglo-Saxon huntian, English hunt, is a secondary form: see hunt and hand, hend, hent.
  2. The d is excrescent, as in boun-d, soun-d, etc.; from Middle English hine, hyne, a domestic, servant (man or woman), a singular developed from Anglo-Saxon hīna, Old Northumbrian hīne, plural, glossing L. domesticus, a modified form, with added plural suffix -c, of Anglo-Saxon hīwan, Old Northumbrian hīwæ, also written hīgan, Old Northumbrian hīgo, hīgu, domestics, servants, collectively household, family; genitive hīwena, contr. hīna, Old Northumbrian hīgna, as in hīna-ealdor, master of a household, Old Northumbrian fader hīgna, paterfamilias; plural of unused *hīwa, later Middle English hewe, one of a household or family, a servant: see hewe.
  3. A modern ‘positive’ from the comparative hinder, from Middle English hindere, hindre, adjective (Middle English hind, adverb, only once): see hinder, adjective
 

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