paving

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Wrote Reporter Dixon: "The order suggests that Army doctors blink at whatever spavins, heaves, or horsecollar sores the wild Mayor may have and pass him if he is able to stand on his feet."

From Time Magazine Archive

I had to care for and drive a poor old feller with the string halt, and spavins, and I used to wonder why I couldn't get his tail to grow longer.

From Mixed Faces by Norton, Roy

Veterinarians are unanimous that horses are affected with spavins, splints, ringbones, etc., from being shod and from travelling on hard roads, and they are almost equally unanimous that a tendency to these malformations is transmitted.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Darwin, Charles

Swift as revolving pin-wheels or rapid peg-top, those spavins, those ring-bones, those bulbous hocks, those sand-cracked hoofs and those rattling ribs went whistling o'er the track.

From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870 by Various

The argument advanced by some that because these bony deposits are frequently found on both hocks they are not spavins is fallacious.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.