rearmost

adjectiveC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — rear sits at #2,156Too rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Rearmost means furthest to the back. The rearmost carriage, the rearmost row of seats.

It goes before the noun and belongs to written notices more than to speech. Rearmost and hindmost mean the same, and the second is now nearly archaic.

Definitions of rearmost

1adjectiverearmostFurthest to the back.C1
“Only the rearmost carriage will open at this station.”

rearmost is a position.

Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*h₁rey- — to lift oneself, rise
Proto-Germanic
*raizijaną
Proto-West Germanic
*raiʀijan
Old English
rǣran — to raise, set upright, promote, exalt, begin, create, give rise to, excite, rouse, arouse, stir up
Middle English
reren — to raise
English
rear
English, today
rearmost

Built from

*raisijaną · Proto-Germanic — to cause to rise, raise

From rear + -most. rear comes from Middle English reren (“to raise”), from Old English rǣran (“to raise, set upright, promote, exalt, begin, create, give rise to, excite, rouse, arouse, stir up”), from Proto-West Germanic raiʀijan, from Proto-Germanic raizijaną, raisijaną (“to cause to rise, raise”), from Proto-Indo-European h₁rey- (“to lift oneself, rise”). Cognate with Scots rere (“to construct, build, rear”), Icelandic reisa (“to raise”), Gothic 𐍂𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (“to cause to rise, lift up, establish”), German reisen (“to travel”) literally “to rear up and depart”; and a a doublet of raise. More at rise. Related to rise and raise, which is used for several of its now archaic or obsolete senses and for some of its senses that are currently more common in other dialects of English.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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rearmost in the wild

Because the slide is spring-loaded, once at the rearmost position, the spring tension will push it back towards the front.
Pistol slide
The Hofmeister kink (German: Hofmeister-Knick) is an automotive design feature consisting of a rearward/forward angle near the base of the rearmost pillar.
Hofmeister kink
In general Pygidicranids also have equally sized ventral cervical sclerites, and in having the rearmost sclerite separated from, or only touching the center of the prosternum.
Pygidicranidae
The rearmost cockpit incorporated a ring mount for a gunner.
Heinkel HD 28
Sometimes the spots are reduced only to the areas behind the head and to the segment bearing the rearmost pair of legs.
Anticlea derivata

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Related words

the rǣran family

rear

rearmost — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others

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