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spavined

/spav-ind/US // ˈspæv ɪnd //UK // (ˈspævɪnd) //

带刺的,有刺的,有刺,带刺

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : suffering from or affected with spavin.
    • : being of or marked by a decrepit or broken-down condition: a spavined old school bus abandoned in a field.

Examples

  • It reminded him of the man who had a poor old lean, bony, spavined horse, with swelled legs.

  • Jake gave an extra motion to his spavined leg and looked up quizzically into the rigid face of the old man.

  • I collected a regular hospital of spavined, knock-kneed beasts, and he took them from me without a word at thirty pounds apiece.

  • There are people like spavined horses, and one must always get them warm in their work, and they never show the blemish.

  • "Walks like a pair of spavined sugar tongs," was Waddles' comment.

  • And they're all tryin' to borry money off'm me and sell me spavined hosses.