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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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 Barnes, William
He returns, broken-winded, to learn that it was altogether a false alarm.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 by Various
And my two beautiful bays," he added to himself, "which they took away from me, and here I must drive two lame old broken-winded jades.
From In the Year '13 A Tale of Mecklenburg Life by Reuter, Fritz
He went to the fair in --- with a broken-winded horse and a glandered.
From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey
All broken-winded horses have the cough peculiar to the affection, but it is not regular.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
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