Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An involuntary convulsive movement of the muscles of either hind leg in the horse, by which the leg is suddenly and unduly raised from the ground and lowered again with unnatural force; also, the nervous disorder on which such movements depend, and the resulting gait.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Far.) A kind of lameness in a horse. See
stringhalt .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A kind of
lameness inhorses .
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Examples
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Mayhew said stringhalt, also known as springhalt and Hahnentritt ( "rooster kick"), is an anciently recorded disease that is characterized by a sudden, apparently involuntary, exaggerated flexion of one or both hind limbs during attempted movement.
TheHorse.com News 2009
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At a little distance grazed an old horse, gray and gaunt, springhalt and spavined, with ribs like Death's own.
To Have and to Hold Mary Johnston 1903
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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.
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 Geo. Alex. Stevens 1893
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