thorter-illn.
Scottish.
A disease of sheep, characterized by distortion of the neck; louping-ill.
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1791 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. I. 138 Palsy, called trembling, or thorter ill, to which those fed on certain lands are peculiarly subject.
1808 Sporting Mag. 32 195 A sheep which had died of disease (the thorter ill) and was at the time in a state of putrescence.
1829 J. Hogg Shepherd's Cal. in Tales & Sketches xvi The thwarter-ill (a sort of paralytic affection) came among them [the sheep].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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