Definition of "hindmost" []

• Farthest to the rear; last. (adjective)

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• "To inspect a lobster's limbs, we lay it on its back (as Aristotle did), and see the legs overlapping, each hinder one above the one before; the hindmost is the first we see, and the one we must first lift up to inspect the others."
• "But I say to you: Each for all, and the hindmost is your charge."
• "Behind them at a distance of several rods came two others, holding precisely the same relative positions, while the rest were strung along over the prairie, until it looked as if the hindmost was a third of a mile distant."