English word senses marked with lifeform category "Farriery"

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Total 20 word senses

• arrest (Noun) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse
• ball (Noun) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
• bar (Noun) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
• bar (Noun) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
• beak (Noun) A toe clip.
• bloodstick (Noun) A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, used to strike the fleam into the vein.
• butteris (Noun) A cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the operator's shoulder, used in paring the hoofs of horses.
• charge (Noun) A sort of plaster or ointment.
• countermark (Noun) An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age.
• fire (Verb) To cauterize.
• flaps (Noun) A disease in the mouths of horses involving inflammation in the cheeks or lips.
• gourdy (Adjective) Having swollen legs
• lunette (Noun) A half horseshoe, lacking the sponge.
• quarter (Noun) Place or position.; The part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, the side of its coffin.
• quitter (Noun) Alternative spelling of quittor (“fistulous wound at the top of a horse's foot”)
• roughshod (Adjective) Of a horse: having hooves shod with horseshoes that have calks or projecting parts to prevent slipping.
• spavin (Noun) A bony swelling which develops in a horse's leg where the shank and splint bone meet, caused by inflammation of the cartilage connecting those bones; also, a similar swelling caused by inflammation of the hock bones.
• spavin (Noun) A disease of horses caused by this bony swelling (sense 1.1).
• spavin (Verb) To cause (a horse or its leg) to have spavin (noun sense 1.2).
• twitch (Noun) A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse and twisted to keep the animal quiet during minor surgery.

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