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 Herbert Strang
Why you draw your Breath as hard as a broken-winded Racer; some Qualm I suppose about this neglected Island.
From A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753 by Anonymous
"Maister Alexander!" he cried, panting and broken-winded with haste, "Maister Alexander is comin' ower the Brae!"
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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
He tried to lash himself to vigour, but it was spurring a broken-winded horse.
From Americans and Others by Agnes Repplier
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