windgall

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English

Etymology

From wind +‎ gall.

Noun

windgall (plural windgalls)

  1. A puffy, typically fluid filled sac located just above the fetlock joint on a horse, generally appearing on old or poorly kept horses.
    Synonym: windpuff
    • 1844, Alexandre Dumas (anon. translator), The Three Musketeers, Spark Publishing (2004) p. 12
      It was a Bearn pony, from twelve to fourteen years old, yellow in his hide, without a hair in his tail, but not without windgalls on his legs

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