springhalt
English
Alternative forms
Noun
springhalt (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of stringhalt.
- 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- They haue all new legs, / And lame ones; one would take it,
That neuer see 'em pace before, the Spauen
A Spring-halt rain'd among 'em.
Danish
Adjective
springhalt
- A lameness or injury in pigs or other domestic animals, causing the animal to avoid standing on a diseased leg and to move by jumping.