[f. WIND sb.1 + SUCKER.]

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  † 1.  The valve of a pair of bellows. Obs.

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1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, III. xiv. (Roxb.), 7/2. The wind sucker, a flap of strong Leather set ouer the wind hole within the belly.

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  2.  A horse addicted to wind-sucking.

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1825.  Jamieson.

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1853.  R. S. Surtees, Sponge’s Sp. Tour, x. Whose horse had a cough, whose was a wind-sucker, whose was lame after hunting.

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1908.  Animal Managem., 127. Windsuckers and crib-biters should, if possible, be fed apart from the rest.

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