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.
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Accordingly, I hired a long-legged, broken-winded hack, the only one to be got for love or money, and set forth upon my way.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
Not long afterward, the Horse, having become broken-winded, was sent by his owner to the farm.
From Aesop's Fables A New Revised Version From Original Sources by Harrison Weir
Comes a broken-winded tootle on a coach-horn and the black-and-scarlet drag of the local garrison trundles into view.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-21 by Various
He can't trot up-hill, for he's broken-winded, and if you hurry him on the level he mostly has a fit of blind staggers.
From Mr. Punch's Country Life by J. A. (John Alexander) Hammerton
An' in the dusk, a-ridèn round Drough Okford, who d'ye think we vound But Sam ageän, a-gwäin vrom feäir Astride his broken-winded meäre.
From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes
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