windgall
[wind-gawl]
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noun Veterinary Pathology.
a puffy distention of the synovial bursa at the fetlock joint.
Origin of windgall
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They were outside the Windgall Arms, and Kimberley understood.
He turned round apologetically, and confronted the Earl of Windgall.
If Windgall suffered, he had a solid compensation locked in the drawers of his library table.
Windgall caught only the first three words; he tugged at the bell-pull, and sent for a doctor.
Kimberley went home in a tremor of nervous anxiety, and Windgall sent for his daughter.
windgall
noun
Word Origin for windgall
C16: from wind 1 + gall ²
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