springhalt
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of springhalt
First recorded in 1605–15; alteration by association with spring
Example Sentences
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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.
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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.
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Our horse was noted for the springhalt.
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At a little distance grazed an old horse, gray and gaunt, springhalt and spavined, with ribs like Death's own.
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One would take it, That never saw 'em pace before, the spavin Or springhalt reign'd among 'em.
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