Definitions from Wiktionary (spavin)
▸ noun: (farriery, veterinary medicine)
▸ noun: (countable) 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.
▸ noun: (uncountable) A disease of horses caused by this bony swelling (sense 1.1).
▸ noun: (by extension, uncountable) A similar disease causing a person's leg to be lame.
▸ verb: (farriery, veterinary medicine) To cause (a horse or its leg) to have spavin (noun sense 1.2).
▸ verb: (figurative) To impair or injure (someone or something).
▸ noun: (mining) The stratum of earth underneath a coal deposit.
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▸ noun: (farriery, veterinary medicine)
▸ noun: (countable) 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.
▸ noun: (uncountable) A disease of horses caused by this bony swelling (sense 1.1).
▸ noun: (by extension, uncountable) A similar disease causing a person's leg to be lame.
▸ verb: (farriery, veterinary medicine) To cause (a horse or its leg) to have spavin (noun sense 1.2).
▸ verb: (figurative) To impair or injure (someone or something).
▸ noun: (mining) The stratum of earth underneath a coal deposit.
▸ Also see spavin
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