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n. - Lower part of a horse's thigh between the hock and the stifle.

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Usage examples (8)
  • The wounds had sprawled from cannon to hock to gaskin and were reaching toward the thigh.
  • Fantastic stuff: There's an exhaust gaskin, as I believe it's called, the most magnificent battery, and it'll be a great opportunity to find out how brakes work.
  • Posted 05/30/2008 by elizabeth1 breech babies are born naturally everyday without any intervention ... ina may gaskin anyone??? free thinkers .... just 'cause you are to...
  • He was clothed with tatters of old ships 'canvas and old sea-cloth, and this extraordinary patchwork was all held together by a system of the most various and incongruous...
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