LekhoriLekhoriLate, tardy, overdue, behind (in accomplishing a task, etc.).
These days before the examinations began were very difficult for everybody, and Perrin began that hideous “getting behind-hand” that made things accumulate so that there seemed no chance of ever catching up.
Not at the expected point of completion.
It was now the season for planting and sowing; many gardens and allotments of the villagers had already received their spring tillage; but the garden and the allotment of the Durbeyfields were behindhand.
Behind (someone or something moving, a trend, etc.), lagging behind, not keeping up.
I have constantly observed, that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behind-hand in their politicks.
Belatedly, tardily.
From behind + hand.
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In debt, or in arrears.