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Spavined

//ˈspævɪnd// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a horse: having spavin (“a disease of horses caused by a bony swelling which develops in a leg due to inflammation”).

    "[H]e […] made a present to Andrew of a broken-winded and spavined poney, in order to enable him to pursue his journey."

  2. 2
    Of a person: lame due to a leg disease. broadly
  3. 3
    Of a person or a thing: old, worn-out; also, obsolete. figuratively

    "I’m a spavined old warrior, and I don’t have much time left in this world, but I still have a few tricks to teach these whippersnappers."

Adjective
  1. 1
    (of horses) afflicted with a swelling of the hock-joint wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of spavin form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Late Middle English spaueyned, from spavein, spaveine (“swelling on horse’s leg causing lameness; disease causing lameness in horses”) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives; and the past tense and past participle forms of weak verbs). By surface analysis, spavin + -ed (suffix forming possessional adjectives from nouns, denoting having the objects represented by the nouns; and forming past tenses of regular verbs).

Etymology 2

From Late Middle English spaueyned, from spavein, spaveine (“swelling on horse’s leg causing lameness; disease causing lameness in horses”) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives; and the past tense and past participle forms of weak verbs). By surface analysis, spavin + -ed (suffix forming possessional adjectives from nouns, denoting having the objects represented by the nouns; and forming past tenses of regular verbs).

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