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spavined

ADJECTIVE
  1. (of horses) afflicted with a swelling of the hock-joint

How To Use spavined In A Sentence

  • But the hock may be "spavined," while to all outward observation it still retains its perfect form. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • There may seem to be a lot of men supporting you Iain but some of them will be Lib Dems are better referred to as spavined hermaphrodites not knowing which way to turn. The Male Dominated Blogosphere: Was Melissa Kite Right?
  • [FOOTNOTE 87: spavined crowbait -- a lame, emaciated horse (from spavin, an inflammation of the tarsal or ankle joint of a horse, causing lameness, and an appearance that causes carrion birds to think a meal is in the offing)] "A very sad --" began Judge Menefee, but his remark was curtailed by a higher authority. Heart of the West [Annotated]
  • This past summer, a geezer friend of mine was railing at the current generation of hunters who roost in trees like so many spavined turkeys and rarely walk anywhere. Uncategorized Blog Posts
  • Joe Biden: I had thought of him as merely one more spavined Senate hack. David E.
  • There was brought to the door at dawn for Richard a jibbing, backing pony, with vicious eyes, and for me a mangy horse like a knifeboard, spavined, with weak legs, and very aged, but nevertheless showing signs of “blood.” The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
  • Effie is spavined, Addie is knock-kneed and stringhalt, and Jessie, the only one who showed her stockings, has legs without calves, as classic in their outlines as the curves of a broom handle. So Sue Me - The Panda's Thumb
  • Not the spavined buffoons of the Wodehousian imagination, but the revenge-crazed thugs of the century following the Restoration. Unseen Swells: Why rock stars should become aristocrats
  • A third perceived he had a windgall, and would bid no money; a fourth knew by his eye that he had the botts; a fifth wondered what a plague I could do at the fair with a blind, spavined, galled hack, that was only fit to be cut up for a dog-kennel. The Vicar of Wakefield
  • There are two or three-other old war-horses - no more 'spavined' than you, I might add - former Bordermen like you, who have pretty much the same attitudes. Magic's Price
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