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We found 7 dictionaries that define the word spavins:

General (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. spavins: Merriam-Webster
  2. spavins: Vocabulary.com
  3. spavins: Wiktionary
  4. spavins: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spavins: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spavins: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. spavins: Medical dictionary

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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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