spavin

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A bony swelling which develops in a horse's leg where the shank and splint bone meet, caused by inflammation of the cartilage connecting those bones; also, a similar swelling caused by inflammation of the hock bones.

   “[H]is horſe hip'd vvith an olde mothy ſaddle, and ſtirrops of no kindred: beſides poſſeſt vvith the glanders, and like to moſe in the chine, troubled vvith the Lampaſſe, infected vvith the faſhions, full of VVindegalls, ſped vvith Spauins, raied vvith the Yellovvs, […]”

2. isim A disease of horses caused by this bony swelling (etymology 1, noun sense 1.1).

   “[N]ovv the Bots, the Spauin, and the Glanders, and ſome doſen diſeaſes more, light on him, & his Moyles.”

3. isim A similar disease causing a person's leg to be lame.
4. fiil To cause (a horse or its leg) to have spavin (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.2).

   “Mr. Lythe had seen many horses which Mr. Field had passed as sound although they were spavined; and he does not recollect a single instance of lameness among them.”

5. fiil To impair or injure (someone or something).

   “But Ahab; oh he’s a hard driver. Look, driven one leg to death, and spavined the other for life, and now wears out bone legs by the cord.”

6. isim The stratum of earth underneath a coal deposit.