spavined
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9.9
A horse with a swollen, painful hock joint that makes it limp
- adjective
- /ˈspævɪnd/
- Specialized
:
afectado por espolón
- The veterinarian examined the spavined mare and recommended rest and treatment for her swollen joints.
Examples
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"Oh, the poor spavined thing you brought home that year!
Blog text (17) -
Now the smoke was clearing, and the wyvern could be seen lying in a spavined, sprawled, sanguine heap, each head smiling contentedly.
Fiction book (2001) -
The old, spavined horse struggled to keep up with the other animals in the race.
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After years of plowing the fields, the farmer's once-strong stallion became a spavined shadow of its former self.
How Lame
Surface Forms
spavined positive
Morphology
Etymology
Spavined comes from the old word spavin, which means a swelling in a horse's hock, plus the ending -ed that means 'having'. So a spavined horse is one 'having' that swelling and is often lame.