skewbald

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I'll swap him even for your skewbald Like to see him," said Uncle Enoch.

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  1. adjective Having spots or patches of white on a coat of a color other than black: a skewbald horse.
  2. noun A skewbald animal, especially a horse.

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  • Nicola Wilson rode a very impressive clear round on her skewbald mount, Mini Mr Bigglesworth, in a time that couldn't be beaten to take first place. —  Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines
  • Most Gypsy cobs are what Americans would call spotted and what the British would call piebald or skewbald. —  Shelbyville Times-Gazette Headlines
  • I'll swap him even for your skewbald Like to see him," said Uncle Enoch. —  Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle
  • Hillock, scrub that brushed against the horse's belly, unmetalled road where the whip-like foliage of the tamarisks lashed his forehead, illimitable levels of lowland furred with bent and speckled with drowsing cattle, waste, and hillock anew, dragged themselves past, and the skewbald was labouring in the deep sand of the Indus-ford. —  Life's Handicap
  • This skewbald was a knowing animal, and made only a show of pulling; whereas its comrades, the middle horse (a bay, and known as the Assessor, owing to his having been acquired from a gentleman of that rank) and the near horse (a roan), would do their work gallantly, and even evince in their eyes the pleasure which they derived from their exertions Ah, you rascal, you rascal! —  Mertvye dushi. English
 

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  1. Middle English skeued, of mixed colors (probably from skeu, sky, cloud, of Scandinavian origin; see (s)keu- in Indo-European roots) + bald.
 

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