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  • noun Plural form of windgall.

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Examples

  • 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, which, though going with his head lower than his knees, rendering a martingale quite unnecessary, contrived nevertheless to perform his eight leagues a day.

    One for all Matthew Guerrieri 2006

  • 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, which, though going with his head lower than his knees, rendering a martingale quite unnecessary, contrived nevertheless to perform his eight leagues a day.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2006

  • And indeed the time was very dangerous in coming from the fair, in so far that many trained bowmen were cast at the muster and quite rejected, although the chimney-tops were high enough, according to the proportion of the windgalls in the legs of horses, or of the malanders, which in the esteem of expert farriers is no better disease, or else the story of Ronypatifam or

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • And indeed the time was very dangerous in coming from the fair, in so far that many trained bowmen were cast at the muster and quite rejected, although the chimney-tops were high enough, according to the proportion of the windgalls in the legs of horses, or of the malanders, which in the esteem of expert farriers is no better disease, or else the story of Ronypatifam or

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • The above is recommended in outside callous, such as spavin, ringbone, curbs, windgalls, etc. etc.

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

  • Mendouca with his sextant in his hand, for the purpose of finding the ship's longitude -- our first glance aloft showed us that a large halo had gathered round the sun, and certain clouds that had risen above the horizon were carrying windgalls in their skirts.

    The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast Harry Collingwood 1886

  • I examined the piebald critically, walking and trotting him round; looked into his mouth, then at hoofs and fetlocks, beloved of windgalls; gazed with fixed attention into his eyes and dealt him a sudden brisk blow on the shoulder.

    The Purple Land 1881

  • They have their origin in a dropsical condition of the bursæ of the joint itself, also of the tendon which slides behind it, and are therefore further known by the designations of articular and tendinous windgalls, or puffs.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

  • This treatment should subdue the inflammation, abate the soreness, absorb the excess of secretion, strengthen the walls of the sac, and finally cause the windgalls to disappear, provided the animal is not too quickly returned to labor and exposed to the same factors that occasioned them at first.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

  • When these sacs are overdistended by reason of an excessive secretion of synovia, they are called windgalls.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

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