A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1656
[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0]
Half-hind, n. [Half a. 1; hind Hyne n. (farm-servant).] — 1656 Edinb. Justices Peace 406.
A half hinds service is that same of the whole hind; he only differs from a whole hind in so far as he is not to keep and intertain an other fellow servant with himself; but it is required he have the same knowledge in husbandry
You may wish to vary the format shown below depending on the citation style used.
"Half-hind n.". Dictionary of the Scots Language. 2004. Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd. Accessed 15 Dec 2025 <http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/half_hind>
