"hinderling" meaning in English

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          "text": "How say you, my lusty compeers; shall we permit a hinderlin to sit at board with us, and brand us with the name of cowards?",
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          "text": "[…] from which the West Saxons, namely the men of Exeter have a saying of the greatest contempt, in that when moved by the highest wrath they call one another a hinderling, that is, one sunk down from all honor.",
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          "text": "\"How? How do I know? Know that you are there or know that you are a rossamünderling? An ouranin? A manikin? A hinderling? A pink-lips? A fake-foe? […]\"",
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        "The buttocks; the posterior."
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