broken-ˈwinded, a.
[f. prec. + -ed.]
1. Farriery. Affected with the disease of a broken wind (see prec.); exhaling the air from the lungs with spasmodic efforts.
| 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §85 Broken wynded is an yll dysease, and cometh of rennynge or rydynge ouer moche..and wyll not be mended. 1580 Baret Alv. s.v. Flanke, To moue the flanks like a broken winded horse. 1607 Dekker Westw. Hoe Wks. 1873 II. 351, I shall cough like a broken winded horse. 1748 tr. Vegetius' Distemp. Horses 176 They are pursive or broken-winded. 1846 R. E. Egerton-Warburton Hunt. Songs, Earth Stopper iv, Thy worn hackney, blind and broken winded. 1849–52 Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 1021/2. |
2. transf. and fig.
| 1627 May Lucan v. (R.) Broke-winded murmers, howlings, and sadd grones. 1641 Milton Animadv. (1851) 190 Liberty of speaking..was girded, and straight lac'd, almost to a broken-winded tizzick. 1809 W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 244 They might as well have tried to turn a rusty weather-cock with a broken-winded bellows. 1883 Century Mag. XXVI. 282 Kicking a broken-winded foot-ball about the field. |