Meanings
nounspringhalt (uncountable)
alternative stringhalt
- alternativeobsoleteuncountableAlternative form of stringhalt.
They haue all new legs, / And lame ones; one would take it, That neuer see 'em pace before, the Spauen A Spring-halt rain'd among 'em.
1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]
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