keffeln.
dialect and obsolete slang.
A horse, esp. a sorry horse.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun] > inferior or old and worn-out
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1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Keffal, a Horse.
1706 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. xii. 26 At last a Negro Devil came On a dun Kefield, blind and lame.
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xx. 126 Old Robin at a distance, on his Roan Keffel.
c1825 Houlston Tracts II. xlviii. 3 Thomas Shelton's kephels are so thin and weak, they can hardly lift one leg after the other.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Keffel, a sorry, worthless horse.
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