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stringhalt|ˈstrɪŋhɔːlt|
Also 6 -halte, -hawlde, 7 -holt, -hault.
[app. f. string n. + halt a. and n.2 See also springhalt.]
An affection of the hind legs of a horse which causes certain muscles to contract spasmodically.
1523–34Fitzherb. Husb. § 108 The stryng-halte is an yl disease, and maketh hym to twyche vp his legge sodeynly. 1592R. D. Hypnerotomachia 45, I might well perceiue that they [sc. the nymphs] had neither crampes nor stringhawldes or leaden heeles. 1639T. de Grey Compl. Horsem. 66 All manner of convulsions, cramps, numnesse, and stringholts. 1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2353/4 He takes up his Legs behind when he walks, as if he had the String-halt. 1817Scott Rob Roy xxvii, The stringhalt will gae aff when it's gaen a mile. 1888W. Williams Princ. Vet. Med. (ed. 5) 11 Hereditary tendency.—Many diseases, such as curbs, spavin,..chorea or stringhalt, run in certain breeds of horses.
†b. as adj. Affected with stringhalt. Obs.
1675Lond. Gaz. No. 983/4 A Grey Mare,..Stringhalt on the near Leg behind. 1703Ibid. No. 3881/4 A brown-bay Nag,..much string-halt.
Hence ˈstringhalted (whence stringhaltedness), -halty adjs., affected with stringhalt. ˈstringhalter, a horse affected with stringhalt.
1687Lond. Gaz. No. 2224/4 The one [gelding] a grey,..string-halted. 1853Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour (1893) 61 A weedy string-halty chestnut.., high in bone and low in flesh. 1872Daily News 18 Apr. 5/7 The roarers, wheezers, scramblers, star-gazers, stringhalters. 1889F. C. Philips Ainslie's Courtship I. vi. 62 There was also a distinct tendency towards string-haltedness. |