broken-winded
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
broken-winded (comparative more broken-winded, superlative most broken-winded)
- (of horses, archaic) Suffering from a shortness of breath or similar respiratory problem.
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:- My horse would have trotted to Clifton within the hour, if left to himself, and I have almost broke my arm with pulling him in to that cursed broken-winded jade’s pace.
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References[edit]
- “broken-winded”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.