Forms: see WIND sb.1 and GALL sb.2; also 7 -gaul. A soft tumor on either side of a horse’s leg just above the fetlock, caused by distension of the synovial bursa.
1523–34. Fitzherb., Husb., § 99. Wyndgalles is a lyghte sorance, and commeth of great labour.
1596. Shaks., Tam. Shr., III. ii. 53. Full of Windegalls, sped with Spauins.
1607. Markham, Cavel., VII. 78. Windgalls are little blebs raisd vp by extreame trauel on each side the horses Fetlockes.
1690. Dryden, Don Sebastian, I. i. Feel his Legs, Master, neither Splint, Spavin, nor Wind gall.
1714. Lond. Gaz., No. 5195/4. Windgalls on both Heels of her hinder Feet.
1766. Goldsm., Vicar W., xiv. A third perceived he had a windgall, and would bid no money.
1846. J. Baxter, Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4), I. 448. Wind-galls of the knee-joint.
Hence Windgalled a., affected with a windgall or windgalls.
1665. Brathwait, Comm. Two Tales, 36. The Love of his dear Alyson … quickens his wind-gall’d feet.
1674. Lond. Gaz., No. 926/4. Her off Leg before Wind-gaulled. Ibid. (1705), 4159/4. A black Gelding… Wind-gall’d in all his Legs.
1805. C. James, Milit. Dict. (ed. 2), s.v. Wind-gall, Long-jointed horses are apt to be wind-galled.
