Windsucker

Quick meaning: Windsucker is a noun meaning A horse with the habit of windsucking.

Meaning

A horse with the habit of windsucking.

More Meanings

1. (archaic) Synonym of windfucker.

Example Sentences

A crib-biting horse repeatedly seizes fixed objects with its incisor teeth and pulls back while making a characteristic grunting noise that signifies the passage of air into the esophagus. A wind-sucker achieves the same characteristic neck posture and grunt without holding onto any fixed object. It is believed that crib-biters may become wind-suckers […]

In a later case a Horse was bought warranted "sound and free from vice," and an action was brought against the vendor on the ground of its being a Crib-biter and Wind-sucker[…]. Veterinary Surgeons were examined who said that the habit of Crib-biting was injurious to Horses; that the air sucked into the stomach of the animal distended it, and impaired its powers of digestion, occasionally to such an extent as greatly to diminish the value of the horse and render it incapable of work.

Word Forms

• windsuckers
• wind-sucker

Synonyms for windsucker

Depending on context, synonyms include fuckwind, windfucker, windhover.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include self-sucker, suckler, guzzler, pseudosucker, nitter, equiphile.

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