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crib-biting

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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈcrib-ˌbiter, noun
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Example Sentences

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

“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.

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.

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

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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