hindpart

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That depends a good deal whether we come down hindpart foremost, or forepart front.

From The Dusantes A Sequel to "The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine" by Stockton, Frank Richard

Another and much louder noise of cracking followed, the floor visibly yielded, and the hindpart of the machine visibly sank about a quarter of an inch.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

Loop′ers, the caterpillars of certain moths, which move by drawing up the hindpart of their body to the head.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

It was represented by the ancients as a creature having the forepart a goat, and the hindpart a fish, or sometimes simply as a goat.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various

The old bird's head snicked round, right round, almost hindpart before; but he made no other movement.

From The Way of the Wild by Rountree, Harry