See spavin on Wiktionary
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"sense": "bony swelling in a horse’s leg; disease of horses caused by this bony swelling; similar disease causing a person’s leg to be lame",
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"sense": "bony swelling in a horse’s leg; disease of horses caused by this bony swelling; similar disease causing a person’s leg to be lame",
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"ref": "1829 November 19, “Veterinary Medical Society, 21st Oct. 1829. Discussion on Mr. W. Percivall’s Paper on Soundness.”, in [William] Percivall, [William] Youatt, editors, The Veterinarian, volume II, number 24, London: […] Compton and Ritchie, […] [for] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, […], published December 1829, →OCLC, page 509:",
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"ref": "1867, John Hill Burton, “Heathendom”, in The History of Scotland from Agricola’s Invasion to the Revolution of 1688, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 224:",
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"ref": "1884 February 23, “Astray from San Rafael” [pseudonym], “Dudetic Leap Year”, in The Wasp, volume XII, number 8, San Francisco, Calif.: E[dward] C[reamor] Macfarlane & Co., →OCLC, stanza 4, page 11, column 1:",
"text": "And oh! Onesiphorus, the old brown mare / Is spavining for love, as also we; […]",
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"text": "The plaintiff introduced evidence tending to prove that the horse was spavined, and that Kuntzman had warranted the soundness of the horse. The fourth exception on the part of the defendant and the plaintiff in error was to the rejection of the evidence that the horse was not spavined while in Weaver's stable, some two months after the sale.",
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"text": "In order to obviate the straining, spavining, and weakness of back, to which horses are subject, caused by the effort of starting heavy cars, Mr. Henry P. Holt designed a tramcar starting gear, patented in May, 1879, […]",
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"ref": "1897 December 2, Joseph Smith, “The Fakir and the Milch Cow”, in Life, volume XXX, number 780, New York, N.Y.: Life Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 465, columns 2–3:",
"text": "[Fridtjof] Nansen, having accomplished nearly as much as these Americans without spavining his health or business instincts, published a book, negotiated with the Major, got out three-sheet posters of himself in modest costume and self-effacing language, and is now able to address large, long-eared and appreciative audiences at the rate of twenty dollars a minute.",
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"ref": "1983 April, Carleton Mitchell, “Cruising with Carleton Mitchell: The Key to Carefree Cruising”, in Roy Attaway, editor, Boating, volume 52, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28, column 1:",
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