ppl. a. Obs. exc. arch. [f. prec.] Galled by spurs; having or suffering from a gall or galls caused by the spar.
1608. Machin, Dumbe Knt., III. I am at my wits’ end, and am made Duller than any spurgal’d, tyred Jade.
1641. J. Day, Parl. Bees, v. (1881), 35. Tho’ this, and such gald jades, Were [? read Mere] spurre-gald-hackneyes, kick at their betters.
1688. Lond. Gaz., No. 2382/4. A black Gelding, about 14 hands,… spur gall’d on both sides. Ibid. (1691), 2709/4. A Spur gall’d, old poor Mare.
1821. Lamb, Elia, I. My Relations. A broken-winded or spur-galled horse is sure to find an advocate in him.
b. Freq. in fig. use.
c. 1590. Montgomerie, Misc. Poems, iii. 31. Then spurgald sporters they began to speill.
a. 1618. Raleigh, Prerog. Parl. (1628), 42. Your Lordship doth remember the spurgald proverbe, that necessitie hath no law.
1635. Laud, Wks. (1860), VII. 117. I am sorry the Bishopric of Fernes is so spurgalled.
1705. Hickeringill, Priest-cr., IV. (1721), 225. When nothing will serve them but to get up and Ride the Spur-gall’d Laiety.
