spavined

Meanings

1. Of a horse: having spavin (“a disease of horses caused by a bony swelling which develops in a leg due to inflammation”).
2. Of a person: lame due to a leg disease.
3. Of a person or a thing: old, worn-out; also, obsolete.

1. simple past and past participle of spavin

Etymology

From Late Middle English spaueyned, from spavein, spaveine (“swelling on horse’s leg causing lameness; disease causing lameness in horses”) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives; and the past tense and past participle forms of weak verbs). By surface analysis, spavin + -ed (suffix forming possessional adjectives from nouns, denoting having the objects represented by the nouns; and forming past tenses of regular verbs).