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

  • noun (Far.) A callous tumor on the leg of a horse, below the hock.

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  • noun A callous tumour below the hock on the leg of a horse

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Examples

  • Indeed, no sooner had I settled one than I seemed that a thousand creditors, guardsmen at their backs, descended upon me, like jards upon an unwatched roast.

    Cinnamon Roll 2010

  • I wondered, too, of Marlenus of Ar, doubtless slain in the Voltai range, in his punitive raid against Treve, doubtless his bones lay now in some remote canyon in the Voltai, picked by jards.

    Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

  • I wondered, too, of Marlenus of Ar, doubtless slain in the Voltai range, in his punitive raid against Treve, doubtless his bones lay now in some remote canyon in the Voltai, picked by jards.

    Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

  • "Not even jards of stone would pick the bones of this loathsome rock!" cried the fellow.

    Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

  • Judging from the condition of the bodies, the effects of the predations of birds, some still about, jards primarily, and the tattering of the winds and rains, they had been there for several weeks.

    Mercenaries Of Gor Norman, John 1985

  • "I should put a pin through your ankles, Taphris," cried the Mistress, "and hang you up by the heels from a Tur tree, smeared with your own blood, for the jards!"

    Fighting Slave Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1980

  • It has been built with run, or burnt limcr, and furrounded at fome jards diftance with a ditch.

    The statistical account of Scotland. Drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes 1791

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  • Nobody wants to get kicked in the jards.

    Somebody should make a horse anatomy list, they have so many unique terms.

    August 11, 2015