Spavin Definition

spăvĭn
noun
Bog spavin.
American Heritage Medicine
A disease of horses in which a deposit of bone (bone spavin) or an infusion of lymph (bog spavin) develops in the hock joint, usually causing lameness.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Spavin

Noun

Singular:
spavin
Plural:
spavins

Origin of Spavin

  • Via Middle English, shortening of Old French espavin, variant of esparvain, from Frankish *sparwan (“sparrow"), see sparrow.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English spaven from Old French espavain swelling perhaps of Germanic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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SSPSPA

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NINVIN

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