Crossword-Solution: SPAVIN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spavin | n. | A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones; also, the swelling itself. The resulting lameness is due to the inflammation, and not the bony tumor as popularly supposed. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “SPAVIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cause of horse lameness. | 1 answer |
| Hock swelling on a horse | 1 answer |
| Horse lameness. | 1 answer |
| Horse's leg ailment | 1 answer |
| Leg trouble for Dobbin | 1 answer |
| Equine ailment | 2 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with SPAVIN (5)
Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water.
Camlet, West Bowlby, Knipswich for Timpany, Spavin Delawarr; and then all the other stations; and then, finally, London.
Steene, since his marriage, had lost all interest in the “bulbul,” openly preferred discussing the nature of spavin with a coarse neighbour, and was angry if the pudding turned out watery—indeed, was simply a top-booted “vet.”, who came in hungry at dinner-time; and not in the least like a nobleman turned Corsair out of pure scorn for his race, or like a renegade with a turban and crescent, unless it were in the irritability of his temper.
Who's the hero of this novel? Oh, that's he, is it? The heavy-looking man on the little brown horse that keeps coughing and is suffering apparently from bone spavin? Well, what are the odds against his winning by ten lengths? A thousand to one! Very well! Have you got a bag?--Good.
Spavin is settling his toilette previous to departure; giving a curl in the glass to his side-wisps of hair.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1956–1978).