spavined

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈspævɪnd/

adj

Etymology: 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).

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.”
“A horse-giver, no more than a horse-seller, has a right to palm his spavined article upon us for good ware. An equivalent is expected in either case; and, with my own good will, I would no more be cheated out of my thanks, than out of my money.”
Of a person: lame due to a leg disease.
Of a person or a thing: old, worn-out; also, obsolete.
“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.”
“If God hide his path, Satan is at hand to turn Convoy: if any have a minde to ride poſte, hee vvill helpe them vvith a freſh ſpavin'd Opinion at every Stage.”

verb

simple past and past participle of spavin