stringhalt

American  

[string-hawlt] / ˈstrɪŋˌhɔlt /

noun

Veterinary Pathology.

1. a nerve disorder in horses, causing exaggerated flexing movements of the hind legs in walking.

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stringhalt British  

/ ˈstrɪŋˌhɔːlt /

noun

1. Also called: springhalt.  vet science a sudden spasmodic lifting of the hind leg of a horse, resulting from abnormal contraction of the flexor muscles of the hock

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Other Word Forms

• stringhalted adjective
• stringhaltedness noun
• stringhalty adjective

Etymology

Origin of stringhalt

First recorded in 1515–25; string + halt ²

Example Sentences

One summer he wandered through South Dakota selling farmers a home-remedy book with cures for lump jaw and scabies in cattle, stringhalt in horses.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had learned the symptoms of epizo�tic—whatever that was—and poll-evil and stringhalt, and had gone from that to making a shopping tour through a Montgomery-Ward catalogue.

From Sawtooth Ranch by Bower, B. M.

Melanotic tumors have been found in the brain and meninges in the form of small, black nodules in gray horses, and in one instance are believed to have induced the condition known as stringhalt.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

She had learned the symptoms of epizoötic—whatever that was—and poll-evil and stringhalt, and had gone from that to making a shopping tour through a Montgomery Ward catalogue.

From The Quirt by Fischer, Anton Otto

Foot-ball produces what may be called the endogenous or ingrowing toenail, stringhalt and mania.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney