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crowbait

n. (context US figuratively English) An old, emaciated horse

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crowbait

n. an emaciated horse likely soon to become carrion and so attractive to crows [syn: crow-bait]

Usage examples of "crowbait".

Up close, her hammer-nosed bay was little better than crowbait, lathered and worn out more than the short run could account for.

Don't ask me why they call it Coonskin, either, or why they call the place down by Schomber-ger, Crowbait, or that other settlement in Archimedes, Hungry Crack.