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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I only brought down a broken-winded Arab or two, and their hire pays my current expenses.
From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by West, John
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
The Horse in a short space of time, broken-winded with running, is sent to the farm.
From The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)
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 Strang, Herbert
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