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Webster 1913 Edition
Windgall
Wind′gallˊ
,Noun.
(Far.)
A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; – so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.
Definition 2024
windgall
windgall
English
Noun
windgall (plural windgalls)
- A puffy, typically fluid filled sac located just above the fetlock joint on a horse. Generally appearing on old or poorly kept horses.
- 1844, Alexandre Dumas (anon. translator), The Three Musketeers, Spark Publishing (2004) p. 12
- 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...
- 1844, Alexandre Dumas (anon. translator), The Three Musketeers, Spark Publishing (2004) p. 12