broken-winded
Americanadjective
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Veterinary Pathology. (of a horse) suffering from heaves, or broken wind.
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short of breath; having difficulty breathing.
Example Sentences
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One fine autumn evening, in the year 1754, a country cart jogged eastwards into Market Drayton at the heels of a thick-set, shaggy-fetlocked and broken-winded cob.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert
He went to the fair in --- with a broken-winded horse and a glandered.
From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey
According to his last wish, Jean Ramel had been conveyed to the Pantheon in the wretched paupers' hearse, which conveys them to the common grave at the shambling trot of some thin and broken-winded horse.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 by Maupassant, Guy de
He'd only a nickel watch, his knife, a pistol as wouldn't shoot, an' a broken-winded cayuse that was hardly worth taking away.
From Kiddie the Scout by Leighton, Robert
And my two beautiful bays," he added to himself, "which they took away from me, and here I must drive two lame old broken-winded jades.
From In the Year '13 A Tale of Mecklenburg Life by Reuter, Fritz
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