"balling-iron" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Named for its original use in forcing open the mouth of an animal for balling.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "balling-irons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "balling-iron (plural balling-irons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
        },
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        },
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        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Veterinary medicine",
          "orig": "en:Veterinary medicine",
          "parents": [
            "Animals",
            "Medicine",
            "Lifeforms",
            "Biology",
            "Healthcare",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Sciences",
            "Health",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature",
            "Body"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1851, The Veterinarian: A Monthly Journal of Veterinary Science, page 635:",
          "text": "After a due examination of the mouth has been made, and we have selected the tooth to be operated upon, the animal should be restrained by means of a twitch, and a balling-iron ought then to be placed in the mouth . The common open balling-iron will answer the purpose, but the one I would recommend you to use is that invented by Mr. Varnell .",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1858, James Slight, Robert Scott Burn, Henry Stephens, The Book of Farm Implements and Machines, page 532:",
          "text": "It is necessary at times to give a medicinal ball to a horse, and as few grooms are expert at administering a ball without assistance, a balling-iron affords them that assistance.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1873, George Armatage, The horse, page 158:",
          "text": "Every groom should know how to give a ball, which is managed either with or without a balling-iron, an instrument which is seldom wanted , and which sometimes occasions considerable mischief to the roof of the horse's mouth .",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1876, Edward Mayhew, Mayhew's Illustrated Horse Management, page 42:",
          "text": "The man using a balling-iron has, therefore, to guard himself from blows rapidly dealt with the fore hoofs of a desperate animal.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A piece of shaped metal that forces the mouth of an animal to stay open."
      ],
      "id": "en-balling-iron-en-noun-A0B~PMXB",
      "links": [
        [
          "veterinary medicine",
          "veterinary medicine"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(veterinary medicine) A piece of shaped metal that forces the mouth of an animal to stay open."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "medicine",
        "natural-sciences",
        "pathology",
        "sciences",
        "veterinary",
        "zoology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "balling-iron"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Named for its original use in forcing open the mouth of an animal for balling.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "balling-irons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "balling-iron (plural balling-irons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Veterinary medicine"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1851, The Veterinarian: A Monthly Journal of Veterinary Science, page 635:",
          "text": "After a due examination of the mouth has been made, and we have selected the tooth to be operated upon, the animal should be restrained by means of a twitch, and a balling-iron ought then to be placed in the mouth . The common open balling-iron will answer the purpose, but the one I would recommend you to use is that invented by Mr. Varnell .",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1858, James Slight, Robert Scott Burn, Henry Stephens, The Book of Farm Implements and Machines, page 532:",
          "text": "It is necessary at times to give a medicinal ball to a horse, and as few grooms are expert at administering a ball without assistance, a balling-iron affords them that assistance.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1873, George Armatage, The horse, page 158:",
          "text": "Every groom should know how to give a ball, which is managed either with or without a balling-iron, an instrument which is seldom wanted , and which sometimes occasions considerable mischief to the roof of the horse's mouth .",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1876, Edward Mayhew, Mayhew's Illustrated Horse Management, page 42:",
          "text": "The man using a balling-iron has, therefore, to guard himself from blows rapidly dealt with the fore hoofs of a desperate animal.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A piece of shaped metal that forces the mouth of an animal to stay open."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "veterinary medicine",
          "veterinary medicine"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(veterinary medicine) A piece of shaped metal that forces the mouth of an animal to stay open."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "medicine",
        "natural-sciences",
        "pathology",
        "sciences",
        "veterinary",
        "zoology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "balling-iron"
}