crib-biting

British  

noun

1. a harmful habit of horses in which the animal leans on the manger or seizes it with the teeth and swallows a gulp of air

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Other Word Forms

• crib-biter noun

Example Sentences

It answers the threefold purpose, to prevent biting, crib-biting, and wind-sucking.

From Project Gutenberg

“Crib-biting” is a vicious habit in horses, probably due in the first instance to indigestion; the horse seizes the manger or other object in its teeth, and draws in the breath, known as “wind-sucking”; the habit may be checked by the use of a throat-strap.

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Sidewalks were rebuilt, and many painted tree boxes appeared along the main street to save the remainder of the tree trunks from the teeth of crib-biting horses.

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Vice is crib-biting, or jibbing, or boring or summat o' that kind.

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It is very difficult to judge the age of horses that have deformed mouths or that are in the habit of crib-biting, because of the irregularity in the wear of the incisors.

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