单词 | screeved |
释义 | > as lemmasscreeved screeved adj. ΚΠ 1896 W. H. Wheeler Hist. Fens S. Lincs. (ed. 2) App. iv. 12 Screeved, a term used to describe an accident which occasionally happened to horses in the fens when, running over ice in winter, their legs became parted and torn off at the joint. 1896 J. T. Bealby Daughter of Fen viii. 67 Half-a-dozen people are gathered round a ‘screeved’ horse; the poor brute's legs have glided so wide apart on the slippery ice that they have snapped in two. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 260/1 Screãved/Screeved, dislocated. The word used for the injury, much less common now, which once occurred fairly frequently to horses in the Fens during the winter freezes. < as lemmas |
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