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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A wound in a hind leg of a horse caused by striking with the shoe of the other hind foot, in the vice called “interfering.”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Far.) An injury in a horse's leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot striking and cutting the other leg. It sometimes forms an ulcer.

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  • noun An injury in a horse's leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot striking and cutting the other leg, and sometimes causing an ulcer.

Etymologies

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Compare Latin crepare to crack.

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