Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In farriery, having the legs swollen, as after a journey: said of a horse.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Far.) Swelled in the legs.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of a horse swollen in the legs

Etymologies

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Either from gourd, or from French gourd benumbed.

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Examples

  • I'll begin at the beginning and some way unclasp those gourdy tendrils that Sallie has been strangling him with.

    The Tinder-Box Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

  • And now for a few more shots of her in all of her gourdy glory:

    RVABlogs 2009

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