† navel-galln.

Forms: see navel n. and gall n.²

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: navel n., gall n.²

Etymology: < navel n. (compare sense 2c s.v.) + gall n.²

Obsolete.

A gall or bruise in the middle of a horse's back.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > chafing or galling

gallc1440

navel-gall?1523

spur-galling1566

saddle boil1591

saddle bruise1591

shackle-gall1596

warble1607

pince1610

stickfast1610

saddle galla1637

spur-gall1655

collar-gall1684

saddle mark1687

holster-gall1689

navel-galling1691

gall-spot1713

warble tumour1805

saddle sore1873

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxiiii^v Nauylgall is a sorance hurt with a saddell or with the buckle..in the myddes of the backe.

1600–9 S. Rowlands Knaue of Clubbes 44 The Lampasse, crest-fall, withers greife, The nauill-gall.

1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies xv. 120 His Stable is a very shop of all diseases;..Ringbones, Windgalls, Navelgalls.

1678 London Gaz. No. 1348/4 Her navil gaul hath formerly been hurt.

1702 London Gaz. No. 3813/4 A lean bay Gelding.., a large Bunch or Navel-Gall on his Back.

1855 Percivall's Hippopathology (ed. 2) I. 199 Saddle-Galls, Navel-Galls, Warbles, Sitfasts.

Derivatives

navel-galled adj.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [adjective] > chafed or galled

galledc1000

saddle bitten1591

shackle-galled1596

navel-galled1601

spur-galled1608

saddle-galled1648

trace-galled1673

collar-galled1684

trace-beaten1687

halter-cast1704

1601 L.W.C. Verie Perfect Disc. Horse f. A4 Nauell galled, is a sore on his Backe against the Nauell, or an Impostume sore.

1659 Mercurius Politicus No. 594. 873 A Bay Gelding fourteen hands high,..his back hath been navel galled, but is grown over with skin without hair.

1703 London Gaz. No. 3967/4 A strong punch grey Nag,..a sore Back, being Navelgall'd.

navel-galling n.

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