broken wind

[ wind ]

noun

, Veterinary Pathology.

1. heaves ( def 21 ).

broken wind

/ wɪnd /

noun

1. vet science another name for heaves

Other Words From

• broken-winded adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of broken wind¹

First recorded in 1745–55

Example Sentences

Video footage showing the devastation across Iowa depicted flattened buildings, overturned cars and broken wind turbines.

From BBC

Next door in a poorer house, there is a child's broken wind chime.

From The Guardian

A broken wind pump creaks, and a forgotten path runs nowhere into brambles.

From The Guardian

Horses fed on concentrated aliment are liable to various disorders, originating from diseased action of the stomach and liver, broken wind, staggers, blindness, &c.

From Project Gutenberg

All those affections, distinguished in the English veterinary works as pneumonia or inflammation of the lungs, chronic cough, thick and broken wind, consumption, &c., are popularly designated as heaves.

From Project Gutenberg