broken wind

[wind]

noun

Veterinary Pathology.

1. heaves.

broken wind

/ wɪnd /

noun

1. vet science another name for heaves

Other Word Forms

• broken-winded adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of broken wind¹

First recorded in 1745–55

Example Sentences

Video footage showing the devastation across Iowa depicted flattened buildings, overturned cars and broken wind turbines.

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Next door in a poorer house, there is a child's broken wind chime.

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A broken wind pump creaks, and a forgotten path runs nowhere into brambles.

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Horses fed on concentrated aliment are liable to various disorders, originating from diseased action of the stomach and liver, broken wind, staggers, blindness, &c.

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All those affections, distinguished in the English veterinary works as pneumonia or inflammation of the lungs, chronic cough, thick and broken wind, consumption, &c., are popularly designated as heaves.

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