dial. or Obs. [var. of quitter-bone, QUITTER sb.1 4.] A suppurating tumor on a horse’s foot. Hence Twitter-boned a., affected with a twitter-bone.
1688. Lond. Gaz., No. 2395/4. A yellowish bay Horse,… a Twitterbone taken out of each hind Foot.
1759. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, I. x. His horse was either clapp’d, or … twitter-bon’d, or broken-winded.
1828. Craven Gloss., Twitter-bone, an excrescence on a horse’s hoof.
