| 单词 |
windgall |
| 释义 |
windgall1|ˈwɪndgɔːl|
Forms: see wind n.1 and gall n.2; also 7 -gaul.
A soft tumour on either side of a horse's leg just above the fetlock, caused by distension of the synovial bursa.
1523–34Fitzherb. Husb. §99 Wyndgalles is a lyghte sorance, and commeth of great labour. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iii. ii. 53 Full of Windegalls, sped with Spauins. 1607Markham Cavel. vii. 78 Windgalls are little blebs raisd vp by extreame trauel on each side the horses Fetlockes. 1690Dryden Don Sebastian i. i, Feel his Legs, Master, neither Splint, Spavin, nor Wind gall. 1714Lond. Gaz. No. 5195/4 Windgalls on both Heels of her hinder Feet. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xiv, A third perceived he had a windgall, and would bid no money. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 448 Wind-galls of the knee-joint.
Hence windgalled |-gɔːld| a., affected with a windgall or windgalls.
1665R. Brathwait Comm. Two Tales 36 The Love of his dear Alyson..quickens his wind-gall'd feet. 1674Lond. Gaz. No. 926/4 Her off Leg before Wind-gaulled. 1705Ibid. 4159/4 A black Gelding,..Wind-gall'd in all his Legs. 1805C. James Milit. Dict. (ed. 2) s.v. Wind-gall, Long-jointed horses are apt to be wind-galled. |
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