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▪ I. wind-sucker|ˈwɪndˌsʌkə(r)|
[f. wind n.1 + sucker.]
†1. The valve of a pair of bellows. Obs.
1688Holme Armoury iii. xiv. (Roxb.) 7/2 The wind sucker, a flap of strong Leather set ouer the wind hole within the belly.
2. A horse addicted to wind-sucking.
1825Jamieson. 1853R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour x, Whose horse had a cough, whose was a wind-sucker, whose was lame after hunting. 1908Animal Managem. 127 Wind-suckers and crib-biters should..be fed apart from the rest.
▪ II. wind-sucker
see windfucker 2.
1880Swinburne Study Shaks. 54 The veriest wind-sucker among commentators. |