Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A defect in a timber or log, due to an old wound caused by the breaking of a limb, commonly by a wind.
- noun Distension of the synovial bursa at the fetlock-joint of the horse, such as may be felt on each side of the tendons behind the joint. Also called
puff . - noun Same as
wind-dog .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Far.) A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
puffy , typically fluid filledsac located just above thefetlock joint on ahorse . Generally appearing on old or poorly kept horses.
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Examples
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From the existence of the Deity to the effect of a blister on a windgall, through the whole range of stable-thought and horse-talk, there was no subject, speaking generally, on which that mongrel population agreed, except, of course, on one thing -- the universal desirability of whiskey.
Bred In The Bone 1908 Thomas Nelson Page 1887
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A third perceived he had a windgall, and would bid no money; a fourth knew by his eye that he had the botts; a fifth wondered what a plague I could do at the fair with a blind, spavined, galled hack, that was only fit to be cut up for a dog-kennel.
bilby commented on the word windgall
Both a horsey word and a forestry word and not really listed as either. Yet.
March 9, 2016