Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In farriery, having the legs swollen, as after a journey: said of a horse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Far.) Swelled in the legs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a horse
swollen in thelegs
Etymologies
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Either from gourd, or from French gourd benumbed.
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Examples
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I'll begin at the beginning and some way unclasp those gourdy tendrils that Sallie has been strangling him with.
The Tinder-Box Maria Thompson Daviess 1898
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And now for a few more shots of her in all of her gourdy glory:
RVABlogs 2009
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