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spavined

WordNet
  1. (adj) spavined
    (of horses) afflicted with a swelling of the hock-joint
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Spavined
    Affected with spavin.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. spavined
    Affected with spavin; hence, figuratively, halting; crippled; very lame or limping.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Spavined
    affected with spavin
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary O. Fr. esparvain (Fr. éparvin)—Old High Ger. sparo, sparwe, a sparrow.

Usage in literature

One of our horses has the spavin. "Dear Enemy" by Jean Webster

His nag on spavined whitegaitered feet jogs along the rocky road. "Ulysses" by James Joyce

None of you old spavins was ever able to get me single-handed. "Five Thousand an Hour" by George Randolph Chester

He sees equally well out of both eyes and is neither lame nor spavined. "Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School" by Jessie Graham Flower

They killed a spavined old plug and left him. "Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Complete" by Charles M. Skinner

Hund'd an' fifty for that kickin' spavin'd critter! "The Complete Works of Artemus Ward" by Charles Farrar Browne (AKA Artemus Ward)

Me and Spavin have the drag between us. "The History of Pendennis" by William Makepeace Thackeray

I had noticed a slight spavin in his near foreleg. "A Terrible Temptation" by Charles Reade

An old Indian jogging by on a spavined horse and wrapped in a dirty blanket was the only person they saw all day. "The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone" by Richard Bonner

Robert Spavin, so soon as dinner was done, took me by the hand, and carried me to the south window. "Notes & Queries, No. 47, Saturday, September 21, 1850" by Various

Usage in poetry
"I've got the itch," growled Dirtovitch,
"Bog spavin and lumbago."
"I'm never dry," swore Goshallski,
"I smell worse than a Dago."
"Troubles In The Trenches" by Abner Cosens
He was spavined all round and he had pidgeon toes
Little pig eyes and a big Roman nose
He was U-necked and old with a long lower jaw
You could tell at a glance he was a regular outlaw.
"The Strawberry Roan" by Curley Fletcher
For the fate of an empire, her life and her fame,
The laggard, the stumbler, the faint heart, the lame!
For the red stricken field whereon nations depend,
The splint and the spavin and bellows to mend!
"The Quest (Horses For The Army)" by Cicely Fox Smith