† twitter-bonen.
Obsolete.
A purulent fistula at the coronet of a horse's foot; a quittor (quittor n. 3). Cf. quittor bone n. at quittor n. Compounds.
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1688 London Gaz. No. 2395/4 A yellowish bay Horse,..a Twitter-bone taken out of each hind Foot.
c1780 School of Arts; or New Bk. Useful Knowl. (ed. 4) v. 45 Twitter Bones are so well known, that I need not make any mention of them, any further than giving a receipt.
1820 J. C. Knowlson Compl. Farrier 106 A Twitter-bone makes a horse very lame, and not fit for work.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Twitter-bone, an excrescence on a horse's hoof.
1891 Farmer's Compl. Encycl. 147 How many twitter-bones have been thus formed that might have been prevented!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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