broken windn.
Farriery.
An incurable disease of the organs of respiration in horses, caused by the rupture of the air-cells, which disables them from bearing fatigue.
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wind?1523
pursick1566
pursickness1610
roaring1813
heaves1828
broken wind1831
thick wind1831
whistling1856
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. A broken wind is discovered by a horse's blowing at the nose in the stable and his flanks beating quick, double and irregular, especially after motion.]
1831 W. Youatt Horse x. 196 Thick-wind and broken-wind exist in various degrees.
1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 311/2 Chronic cough..often degenerating into thick wind..in a great proportion of cases terminates in broken wind.
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