stringhalt

American  

[string-hawlt] / ˈstrɪŋˌhɔlt /

noun

Veterinary Pathology.

1. a nerve disorder in horses, causing exaggerated flexing movements of the hind legs in walking.

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stringhalt British  

/ ˈstrɪŋˌhɔːlt /

noun

1. Also called: springhalt.  vet science a sudden spasmodic lifting of the hind leg of a horse, resulting from abnormal contraction of the flexor muscles of the hock

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• stringhaltedness
  noun
• stringhalted
  adjective
• stringhalty
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of stringhalt

First recorded in 1515–25; string + halt ²

Example Sentences

One summer he wandered through South Dakota selling farmers a home-remedy book with cures for lump jaw and scabies in cattle, stringhalt in horses.

From Time Magazine Archive

This last circumstance, however, proves nothing; for the same thing may be said of tetanus in the human being, and of stringhalt in the horse; both of them being well-marked nervous affections.

From The Dog by Dinks

She had learned the symptoms of epizoötic—whatever that was—and poll-evil and stringhalt, and had gone from that to making a shopping tour through a Montgomery Ward catalogue.

From The Quirt by Fischer, Anton Otto

She had learned the symptoms of epizo�tic—whatever that was—and poll-evil and stringhalt, and had gone from that to making a shopping tour through a Montgomery-Ward catalogue.

From Sawtooth Ranch by Bower, B. M.

Foot-ball produces what may be called the endogenous or ingrowing toenail, stringhalt and mania.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney