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Short-jointed   Listen
adjective
Short-jointed  adj.  Having short intervals between the joints; said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Short-jointed" Quotes from Famous Books



... satisfied with the horse. He never indeed sold a better, or a better-shaped one. The head of a barb, with a clear star; the neck of a swan, slender, and very straight; no more shoulder than a hare; short-jointed, and full of vivacity in his motion. Such feet—by Heaven! such feet!—double-haunched: to tell you the truth, it was I alone who found the way to break him in. Gaveau's Little John never mounted him without ...
— The Bores • Moliere



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