Adjective : a spavined old school bus abandoned in a field. From Dictionary.com.
But the hock may be "spavined," while to all outward observation it still retains its perfect form. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
Those were the days of 'shoddy' cloth and spavined horses. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
Alfred was provided with a rickety buggy and a spavined horse. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
They rode north on spavined horses, wrapped in tattered blankets. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
“What — twenty pelire for that poor spavined old scrag …?”. From Wordnik.com. [Tour de Force]
I never take any liberties with even a blind and spavined derelict. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
The position assumed by the spavined horse is often characteristic. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
He sees equally well out of both eyes and is neither lame nor spavined. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
Joe Biden: I had thought of him as merely one more spavined Senate hack. From Wordnik.com. [David E.] Reference
A spavined horse starts out lame for a few steps or rods and then goes sound. From Wordnik.com. [Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry] Reference
Their poor, broken down, spavined horses, could not stand any additional load. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
The syntax may be spavined, the spelling dyslectic, the subject matter dyspeptic. From Wordnik.com. [Prayers To Broken Stones]
"A hundred bullocks, " Elliott said sourly, 'and none of your spavined beasts, Torrance. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Fortress]
Of the two, his taxi was far worse -- rickety, spavined, with every evidence of decrepitude. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
A mangy hound, a cross-eyed duck, and a spavined horse later, she was tolerating my presence. From Wordnik.com. [Devil's Waltz]
Your aunt has a lot of old spavined furniture which would bring about tu'pence at public sale. From Wordnik.com. [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference
Look, driven one leg to death, and spavined the other for life, and now wears out bone legs by the cord. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
Even Old Methusaleh could trot there in twelve, and he was spavined and a little wind-broke, while Teddy and. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference
"I have three for sale, my Lord, none of them spavined," the wiry man replied with another bow, and no hint of a grin. From Wordnik.com. [Knife of Dreams]
I'm as spavined as just about everyone else on the left over the immediate withdrawal question, still I'm pulling for Berg. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Berg Flubs the Mike Dukakis Moment] Reference
I sat my mare, raindrops glistening on my hair while Joscelin discussed treatment of our spavined mule with the dairy-crofter. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
Gorner looked at the marshal as a vet might inspect a spavined old horse to whom he is about to administer a lethal injection. From Wordnik.com. [Advantage Mr. Bond] Reference
The fountain there was for horses, but there was only one spavined cart mare drinking from the stone trough under the fountain. From Wordnik.com. [Wellspring of Chaos]
Bags of lawn seed and bark mulch spilled from raw pine shelves among the spavined blades and splintered handles of garden tools. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
Not the spavined buffoons of the Wodehousian imagination, but the revenge-crazed thugs of the century following the Restoration. From Wordnik.com. [Unseen Swells: Why rock stars should become aristocrats] Reference
Lou Pinella blew his hosses out in June and July, and we get to ride them spavined old nags eleven more times before the end of the season!. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - The team a horror writer could love] Reference
No old spavined creatures, but young, strong, sound ones. From Wordnik.com. [The U-boat hunters] Reference
If he bought a horse, it was sure to prove spavined or wind-broken. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
Marry, me children, but y'r bronchos are bog-spavined and spring-halted. From Wordnik.com. [Lords of the North] Reference
Also he takes a hand when it comes to testin 'me to see whether I'm club-footed or spavined. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Torchy] Reference
The field is comparatively clear now some of the older hacks have fallen by the way or lie spavined at the roadside. From Wordnik.com. [Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time] Reference
It is not fine music, that of the hand-organ and the street bands; it is indeed too oft a cracked and spavined pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [From the Easy Chair — Volume 01] Reference
Federation looks highly unlikely anyway, at least in name: but it is torpedoed altogether if the euro becomes a spavined currency. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Nevada polymoron running John Birch Society scripts to the psychologically-spavined blackjack dealers crowding the unemployment lines. From Wordnik.com. [Truthout - All Articles] Reference
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