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Broken-winded. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Broken-winded a. [f. prec. + -ED.]

1   1.  Farriery. Affected with the disease of a broken wind (see prec.); exhaling the air from the lungs with spasmodic efforts.

2 1523.  Fitzherb., Husb., § 85. Broken wynded is an yll dysease, and cometh of rennynge or rydynge ouer moche … and wyll not be mended.

3 1580.  Baret, Alv., s.v. Flanke, To moue the flanks like a broken winded horse.

4 1607.  Dekker, Westw. Hoe, Wks. 1873, II. 351. I shall cough like a broken winded horse.

5 1748.  trans. Vegetius’ Distemp. Horses, 176. They are pursive or broken-winded.

6 1846.  R. Eg.-Warburton, Hunt. Songs, Earth Stopper, iv. Thy worn hackney, blind and broken winded.

7 1849–52.  Todd, Cycl. Anat., IV. 1021/2.

8   2.  transf. and fig.

9 1627.  May, Lucan, V. (R.). Broke-winded murmers, howlings, and sadd grones.

10 1641.  Milton, Animadv. (1851), 190. Liberty of speaking … was girded, and straight lac’d, almost to a broken-winded tizzick.

11 1809.  W. Irving, Knickerb. (1861), 244. They might as well have tried to turn a rusty weather-cock with a broken-winded bellows.

12 1883.  H. A. Beers, in Century Mag., XXVI. 282. Some small boys, who were kicking a broken-winded foot-ball about the field with an amount of noise greatly in excess of its occasion.

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