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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The creeping buttercup, Ranunculus repens, so called from the difficulty in eradicating it.
  • noun The rest-harrow, Ononis repens. See rest-harrow, 1.
  • noun A fixed object, as an obstacle encountered by a plow.
  • Stationary; fixed; immovable; steadfast.
  • noun In farriery, a circumscribed callosity of the skin in horses or other saddle- and pack-animals, due to pressure of the load.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Fixed; stationary; immovable.
  • noun (Far.) A callosity with inflamed edges, on the back of a horse, under the saddle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A callosity with inflamed edges, on the back of a horse, under the saddle.

Etymologies

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