Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A disease of horses, characterized by difficult and laborious respiration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
heave . - noun colloquial A
period ofretching . - noun A
disease ofhorses characterized by coughing and difficult breathing. - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
heave .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks
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Examples
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The term heaves is applied almost wholly to an emphysematous condition of the lungs.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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The current is turned on at a signal from the Warden, and the assassin heaves heavily as though the straps would break.
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The current is turned on at a signal from the Warden, and the assassin heaves heavily as though the straps would break.
Presidential Assassin Celebrated in Song uncorrectedproofs 2007
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September stopped, his breath coming in short heaves.
Icerigger Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1974
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The discussion covered a number of areas, including the pathophysiology of recurrent airway obstruction (RAO, also called heaves) and its diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
TheHorse.com News 2009
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Your "heaves" are at best misguided, but more likely I suspect just disingenuous.
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Horses affected with "heaves" show a double contraction of the muscles in the region of the flank during expiration.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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In some localities where the frost "heaves" the sod to any extent during the winter, it will be advantageous to roll it down in the spring with a heavy roller, doing it just after a heavy rain.
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It will bring out the characteristic symptoms of "heaves" if he has been "doped."
Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry Pratt Food Co.
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Still another had the "heaves" so badly that its breathing could be heard twenty rods away.
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