spavined

• After endless effort, he produced something that might have done duty for a spavined dodo. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
• And so Girard went to the right, urging the mule forward as fast as the spavined beast could carry him. —  F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 01 - July 2000
• The syntax may be spavined, the spelling dyslectic, the subject matter dyspeptic. —  Prayers to Broken Stones
• There was brought to the door at dawn for Richard a jibbing, backing pony, with vicious eyes, and for me a mangy horse like a knifeboard, spavined, with weak legs, and very aged, but nevertheless showing signs of “blood.” On top of this poor beast was a saddle big enough for a girl of ten, and I, being eleven stone, felt ashamed to mount. —  The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II
• There would seem, then, to be but little difficulty in comprehending the nature of a bone spavin, and there would be none but for the fact that there are similar affections which may confuse one if the diagnosis is not very carefully made But the hock may be "spavined," while to all outward observation it still retains its perfect form. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

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