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broken-winded (comparative more broken-winded, superlative most broken-winded)

  1. (of horses, archaic) Suffering from a shortness of breath or similar respiratory problem.
    Coordinate term: short-winded
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      1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. [], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, [], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
      My horse would have trotted to Clifton within the hour, if left to himself, and I have almost broke my arm with pulling him in to that cursed broken-winded jade’s pace.

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