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

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crib-biting

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.

From Janice Day at Poketown by Helen Beecher Long

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

From The Golden Calf by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

No doubt crib-biting, nurse-biting and original sin in general are all strictly reducible from Darwinian principles; but don't by misadventure run against any academical facts.

From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 by Thomas Henry Huxley

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.

From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by R. A. Craig, D.V.M.

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

From Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. by Richard L. Allen