springhalt
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of springhalt
First recorded in 1605–15; alteration by association with spring
Example Sentences
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One would take it, That never saw 'em pace before, the spavin Or springhalt reign'd among 'em.
From King Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
But if he does the same thing with his hind-legs they call it springhalt or stringhalt, or something of that kind, and set him down as a beastly old plug.
From The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews by John Kendrick Bangs
Their horses have most of them got the springhalt, and that is the reason why married people now a-days walk a-foot to the Elysian fields.
From A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 by Katherine Cecil Thurston
At a little distance grazed an old horse, gray and gaunt, springhalt and spavined, with ribs like Death's own.
From To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston
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