Stringhalt
Pronunciation : String"halt`
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: An habitual sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that raise the hock. [Written also springhalt.]
(Far.)
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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