poll-evil

In poll-evil, if open, pulverize black bottle glass, put as much in each ear as will lay on a dime.

The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses P. R. Kincaid

Two only of the vagrant tribe the boy dislikes, the colporteur and the travelling Spiritualist -- two cold, shabby, sniffling beings, each wrapped in a shawl and each driving an old horse afflicted with poll-evil.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

She had learned the symptoms of epizoötic -- whatever that was -- and poll-evil and stringhalt, and had gone from that to making a shopping tour through a Montgomery-Ward catalogue.

Sawtooth Ranch B. M. Bower 1905

She had learned the symptoms of epizoötic -- whatever that was -- and poll-evil and stringhalt, and had gone from that to making a shopping tour through a Montgomery Ward catalogue.

The Quirt B. M. Bower 1905

Now comes a horse that represents a collection of ringbones, and glanders, and poll-evil.

The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict Newell Dwight Hillis 1893