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Definitions
(of horses) afflicted with a swelling of the hock-joint
Word origin
From Late Middle English spaueyned, from spavein, spaveine (“swelling on horse’s leg causing lameness; disease causing lameness in horses”) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives; and the past tense and past participle forms of weak verbs). By surface analysis, spavin + -ed (suffix forming possessional adjectives from nouns, denoting having the objects represented by the nouns; and forming past tenses of regular verbs).
Used in a sentence
“[H]e […] made a present to Andrew of a broken-winded and spavined poney, in order to enable him to pursue his journey.”
“[…] Mr. Thumble, […] had ridden over to Hogglestock on a poor spavined brute belonging to the bishop's stable, and which had once been the bishop's cob.”
“Into the vale from the north rode a stranger. He was mounted on a mangy, shovel-headed horse so spavined that it should have been unable to support his improbable bulk.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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