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swayback
[swey-bak]
noun
an excessive downward curvature of the spinal column in the dorsal region, especially of horses.
adjective
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
In grade school, she’d ride her pony - a swayback named Ribbon - and hitch it outside the front door.
He did not care to know the odds of a basset hound developing swayback, or by what process part of an earthworm could make itself whole.
He was an angular swayback, leggy, low-spirited, thick-headed, and as fast as a caterpillar.
So I arose and deposited myself again and again on that old swayback but frolicsome wreck without waking.
Slitlike streets flowed with holiday copiousness, whole families abroad on foot—mothers swayback with babies, and older children who ran ahead shouting and jostling.
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