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English
Noun
springhalt (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of stringhalt.
1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :They haue all new legs, / And lame ones; one would take it,
That neuer see 'em pace before, the Spauen
A Spring-halt rain'd among 'em.
Danish
Adjective
springhalt
- A lameness or injury in pigs or other domestic animals, causing the animal to avoid standing on a diseased leg and to move by jumping.
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