Crossword clues for swayback
swayback
Wiktionary
n. 1 An excessive sagging of the spine of a quadruped animal, especially a horse. 2 An animal with such excessive sagging.
WordNet
adj. having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses) [syn: dipped, lordotic, swaybacked]
Wikipedia
Swayback posture is characterised by the posterior displacement of the rib cage in comparison to the pelvis. It looks like the person has a hyperextension of the natural lordosis, however this is not necessarily the case. Most sway-back exhibits a posteriorly tilted pelvis; the lumbar region is usually flat (too flexed) and not hyperlordotic (too extended).
Usage examples of "swayback".
A single horse, swaybacked, is tethered before the store Brede points out as a chandlery.
Ser Hyle on a chestnut courser and Brienne on her tall grey mare, Podrick Payne astride his swayback stot, and Septon Meribald walking beside them with his quarterstaff, leading a small donkey and a large dog.
Well, as the story went, the dude brought in the boniest old swayback nag anyone could imagine.
They had capped hocks and sloping pasterns, swaybacks and, most troubling of all, too many running noses.
Abattoir He cruised through an outlying neighborhood of decrepit houses: ruptured sidewalks, swaybacked steps, broken porch railings, aged and weathered walls.
Paul, the stable master, had already prepared the swaybacked pack mare with the baggages she would be taking with her.
The silhouette creaks into the brown-boarded shape of a farm wagon pulled by a single large, if swaybacked, gray horse.
I stayed close to the house, and I pedaled Rocket around as gingerly as riding one of those swaybacked ponies that plods in circles at the county fair.
The girls would grow positively swaybacked with perkiness, and Maggie knew it was they who didn't stand a chance.
Then after cleaning the animals' stalls, picking the infectious dung and hay from the horse's hooves and treating the swaybacked pony for ringbone, they could have the rest of the day for playing.