springhalt

English

Alternative forms

• stringhalt

Noun

springhalt (uncountable)

1. (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

1. 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.

References

• “springhalt” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog