Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The creeping buttercup, Ranunculus repens, so called from the difficulty in eradicating it.
- noun The rest-harrow, Ononis repens. See
rest-harrow , 1. - noun A fixed object, as an obstacle encountered by a plow.
- Stationary; fixed; immovable; steadfast.
- noun In farriery, a circumscribed callosity of the skin in horses or other saddle- and pack-animals, due to pressure of the load.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Fixed; stationary; immovable.
- noun (Far.) A callosity with inflamed edges, on the back of a horse, under the saddle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
callosity withinflamed edges, on the back of ahorse , under thesaddle .
Etymologies
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The sitfast is a piece of dead tissue which would be thrown off but that it has formed firm connections with the fibrous skin beneath, or even deeper with the fibrous layers (fascia) of the muscles, or with the bones, and is thus bound in its place as a persistent source of irritation.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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If a sitfast has developed, the dead hornlike slough must be carefully dissected out and the wound treated carefully with antiseptics.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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Nay the very mode of riding: for now no man on a level with his age but will trot a l'Anglaise, rising in the stirrups; scornful of the old sitfast method, in which, according to Shakspeare,
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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The original caufe of the warble muft be likewife difcovered and rem. oved, to prevent a repetition upon the fame part, from which, or the continuation, a sitfast will inevitably enfue.
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