Meaning & use
Spavined
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Afflicted with spavin, a disease causing swelling near a horse's hock joint; broadly, decrepit or worn out.
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The old spavined mare could barely make it across the paddock.
He drove a spavined old truck that rattled with every pothole.
A note on using this word
Originally a veterinary term for horses, later extended figuratively to anything infirm or run-down.
Words with a similar meaning
decrepitbroken-down
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