| 单词 | sprun-vein |
| 释义 | > as lemmassprun-vein 2. Chiefly English regional (northern). The toe or forepart of a horse's hoof. Also: the toe or forepart of a horseshoe. Occasionally attributive in sprun-vein. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > hoof > front part of toe1566 sprun1737 1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xlii. 576 Bleeding in the Sprun-Vein. 1743 H. Bracken Traveller's Pocket-farrier 67 The Quick of a Horse's Hoof lies near the Heels of his Fore-feet, and near the Sprun or Spurn, which is the Fore-part of the Hinder-feet. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Sprun, 1. The fore part of a horse's hoof. 1904 Patents for Inventions: Abridgm. Specif. Hinges 1867–76 38/1 Calks; roughing; special wearing-surfaces.—To the underside and at the toe or ‘sprun’ part of a shoe of a horse. < as lemmas |
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