Definition of Hindhead

1. the back of the head [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hindhead

hinderer
hinderers
hinderest
hindereth
hindering
hinderingly
hinderling
hinderlings
hinderment
hindermost
hinders
hindfeet
hindfoot
hindgut
hindguts
hindhead (current term)
hindheads
hindleg
hindlegs
hindleys screw
hindlimb
hindlimb suspension
hindlimbs
hindmilk
hindquarter
hindquarter amputation
hindquarters
hindrance
hindrances

Literary usage of Hindhead

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Great Britain: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1906)
"RLEY ABBEY, 9-10 Ы. Tolerable walkers, who do not wish to return to Hasle- mere, may extend the hindhead excursion very agreeably as follows. ..."

2. Highways and Byways in Surrey by Eric Parker (1908)
"View from hindhead. CHAPTER XII HASLEMERE AND hindhead Six hundred feet up. ... hindhead commands the south-west corner of the county, but Haslemere is the ..."

3. Happy England as Painted by Helen Allingham, R.W.S. by Marcus Bourne Huish, Helen Paterson Allingham (1903)
"hindhead FROM WITLEY COMMON From the Water-colour in the possession of the Lord Chief Justice of England. Painted 1888. When this drawing appeared in the ..."

4. Commons, Forests and Footpaths: The Story of the Battle During the Last by George Shaw-Lefevre Eversley (1910)
"The following three cases of Hainault Forest, Ham Commons, and hindhead Commons, are illustrations of this. HAINAULT FOREST I have already alluded to the ..."

5. Field Paths and Green Lanes: Being Country Walks, Chiefly in Surrey and Sussex by Louis John Jennings, Josiah Wood Whymper (1878)
"—Over hindhead.—Gibbet Hill and the Murdered Sailor.— The Devil's Punch Bowl.—Only a "Turnpike Road."—The " Green Lanes " of England. ..."

6. A Handbook for Travellers in Surrey, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight by John Murray (Firm) (1876)
"... hindhead]. Guildford, Godalming, and Direct Portsmouth Line, South Western Railway. 19 m. From the Woking Junction Stat. ..."

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