broken-winded

English

Adjective

broken-winded (comparative more broken-winded, superlative most broken-winded)

  1. (of horses) Having short breath or disordered respiration.
    • 1817, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Chapter 11,
      My horse would have trotted to Clifton within the hour, if left to himself, and I have almost broke my arm with pulling him in to that cursed broken-winded jade’s pace.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for broken-winded in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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