α. 1500s throughe spauen, 1500s–1600s through spauen.
β. 1600s thorough spauen, 1600s thorough spaven, 1600s thorough spavin, 1600s thorow spaven, 1600s thorow spavin.
† thorough spavinn.
Farriery. Obsolete.
A hard swelling in the tendon sheath of one of the muscles in a horse's hock; a similar swelling in the carpal joint of the foreleg; = thorough-pin n.
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?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxv Some horses haue through spauen, and apereth bothe within and without.
1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. cxvii. f. 92v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe Of the wette Spauen, or through Spauen... This is a softe swelling growing on both sydes of the hough, and seemes to goe cleane through the hough, and therefore may be well called a throughe Spauen.
1677 London Gaz. No. 1346/4 A grey Nag,..a thorow spavin on the fore-leg before.
1696 A. S. Gentleman's Compl. Jockey 95 This Disease also is commonly known, and some call it the thorough Spavin, it is fed by a thin flexible Humour, by the Master Vein.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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