The Collaborative International Dictionary
Broken-winded \Bro"ken-wind`ed\, a. (Far.) Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.
Wiktionary
a. (context of horses English) Having short breath or disordered respiration.
Usage examples of "broken-winded".
But those two tumbled, broken-winded, and, indeed, broken-hearted old men had been, as an old author says, so emptied from vessel to vessel--they had had a life of such sloughs and stiff climbs--they had been in hunger and thirst, in cold and nakedness so often--that it was no wonder that their dandiacal companion walked on a little ahead of them.
The Long Cleg, horse-coping placidly with a string of broken-winded hacks, waved a friendly arm and asked mildly if it was right that he and the Master had had a fight over the money and he'd broken Lyniond's head for him.