| 释义 |
broken wind, broken-wind 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.
[1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., 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.] 1838Penny Cycl. XII. 311/2 Chronic cough..often degenerating into thick wind..in a great proportion of cases terminates in broken wind. 1847Youatt Horse xii. 278 Thick-wind and broken-wind exist in various degrees. |