单词 | spur-galled |
释义 | spur-galledadj. Obsolete exc. archaic. a. Galled by spurs; having or suffering from a gall or galls caused by the spur. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > [adjective] anguishousc1325 wounded1390 cruciate?1504 agoniousa1513 tormented1552 rivena1560 anguished1570 wracked1581 spur-galled1608 excruciatea1615 over-grieved1618 wrung1730 smarting1754 excruciated1792 cardialgic1811 lacerated1849 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 the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > irritating > suffering spur-galled1608 1608 G. Markham & L. Machin Dumbe Knight iii. sig. F3v I am at my wits end, and am made Duller then any spurgald, tyred Iade. a1634 J. Day Parl. Bees (Lansd. 725) f. 17v Many Illiterate Jades & spurgalld Hacknies kick at his betters. 1688 London Gaz. No. 2382/4 A black Gelding, about 14 hands,..spur gall'd on both sides. 1691 London Gaz. No. 2709/4 A Spur gall'd, old poor Mare. 1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. June 614/1 A broken-winded or spur-galled horse is sure to find an advocate in him. b. Frequently in figurative use. ΚΠ c1590 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems iii. 31 Then spurgald sporters they began to speill. a1618 W. Raleigh Prerogatiue Parl. (1628) 42 Your Lordship doth remember the spurgald proverbe, that necessitie hath no law. 1635 W. Laud Wks. (1860) VII. 117 I am sorry the Bishopric of Fernes is so spurgalled. ?1705 E. Hickeringill Vindic. Char. Priest-craft 18 When nothing will serve them but to get up and Ride, the Spurgall'd Laiety. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2019). > as lemmasspur-galled 1. (a) Affected with galls or painful swellings. (b) Sore from chafing. Often preceded by some defining word, as harness-galled, saddle-galled, spur-galled, trace-galled. ΘΚΠ 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 c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 156 Gif hors geallede sie. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 46 The hors, on which she rode, was black, All lene and galled upon the back. 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) i. xx. 37 b A galled horse, the sooth if ye list se, who trucketh him boweth his back for dred. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 185/1 Gallyd (S. gally), strumosus. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vii. sig. K I rub the gald hors back till he winche. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 231 Let the galld iade wince. 1660 W. Secker Nonsuch Professor 151 Most persons are like gauld horses that cannot indure the rubbing of their sores. 1818 Art of preserving Feet 124 Trusting to the apparently insignificant name of a galled toe. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1871) I. iii. 207 Less sympathy than is now felt for a galled horse or an overdriven ox. 1866 D. Livingstone 13 Nov. in Last Jrnls. (1874) I. iv. 146 I had a galled heel. < adj.c1590 as lemmas |
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