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windgallnoun
A puffy, typically fluid filled sac located just above the fetlock joint on a horse. Generally appearing on old or poorly kept horses.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Windgallnoun
Windgalls are soft, yielding, flatulent tumours or bladders, full of corrupt jelly, which grow upon each side of the setlock joints, and are so painful in hot weather and hard ways, that they make a horse to halt. They are caused by violent straining, or by a horse’s standing on a sloping floor, or from extreme labour and heat, or by blows. Farrier’s Dict.
Etymology: wind and gall.
His horse infected with the fashions, full of windgalls, and sped with spavins. William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew.
Webster Dictionary
Windgallnoun
a soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of windgall in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of windgall in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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