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• s  (of horses) afflicted with a swelling of the hock-joint

• And in spavined one-horse communities named Neon, Grassy Creek, Mousie, Fisty, Jackhorn and Cody, ragged, slack-eyed men and women and listless children with bellies taut from .
• Last week it was spavined, string-halted, wind-broken.
• Old (74) Andy May's lawyers pictured him as a sad and spavined man, plagued with a bad heart, failing eyesight and hearing, and the pangs of near-poverty.

Quotes

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• John D MacDonald in Boston Globe (registration)
  This is a hero squarely in the tradition of Travis McGee (John D. MacDonald called McGee a "tattered knight on a spavined steed"), fueled by plenty of machismo and colossal amounts of vodka and beer.