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- noun Plural form of
hind .
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Examples
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Wives are called hinds and mountain goats its true, however it is obviously regarded as a METAPHOR.
dailycomic Diary Entry dailycomic 2008
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He called his hinds about him, and asked them, as I afterward learned, whether they had ever seen in the fields any little creature that resembled me.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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He called his hinds about him, and asked them, as I afterward learned, whether they had ever seen in the fields any little creature that resembled me?
The Junior Classics — Volume 5 William Patten 1902
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He called his hinds about him, and asked them (as I afterwards learned) whether they had ever seen in the fields any little creature that resembled me.
Gulliver's Travels 1896
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Some of them were of that class called hinds, paying the rents of their little homesteads by stated periods of service allotted to each; in this respect differing but little from the serfs and villains of a more remote era, their toil not a whit less irksome, though their liberty, in name at least, was less under the control and caprice of their lord.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby 1821
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He called his hinds about him, and asked them, as I afterwards learned, whether they had ever seen in the fields any little creature that resembled me.
Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World 1726
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He called his hinds about him, and asked them, as I afterwards learned, whether they had ever seen in the fields any little creature that resembled me.
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706
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He called his hinds about him, and asked them, as I afterwards learned, whether they had ever seen in the fields any little creature that resembled me.
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706
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He called his hinds about him, and asked them, as I afterwards learned, whether they had ever seen in the fields any little creature that resembled me.
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706
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A stag flanked by two female red deer, or "hinds," trotted down a steep moorland pasture toward a wood.
Masters of the Hunt P. J. O'Rourke 2005
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