a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
1. Farriery. Affected with the disease of a broken wind (see prec.); exhaling the air from the lungs with spasmodic efforts.
1523. Fitzherb., Husb., § 85. Broken wynded is an yll dysease, and cometh of rennynge or rydynge ouer moche … and wyll not be mended.
1580. Baret, Alv., s.v. Flanke, To moue the flanks like a broken winded horse.
1607. Dekker, Westw. Hoe, Wks. 1873, II. 351. I shall cough like a broken winded horse.
1748. trans. Vegetius’ Distemp. Horses, 176. They are pursive or broken-winded.
1846. R. Eg.-Warburton, Hunt. Songs, Earth Stopper, iv. Thy worn hackney, blind and broken winded.
1849–52. Todd, Cycl. Anat., IV. 1021/2.
2. transf. and fig.
1627. May, Lucan, V. (R.). Broke-winded murmers, howlings, and sadd grones.
1641. Milton, Animadv. (1851), 190. Liberty of speaking … was girded, and straight lac’d, almost to a broken-winded tizzick.
1809. W. Irving, Knickerb. (1861), 244. They might as well have tried to turn a rusty weather-cock with a broken-winded bellows.
1883. H. A. Beers, in Century Mag., XXVI. 282. Some small boys, who were kicking a broken-winded foot-ball about the field with an amount of noise greatly in excess of its occasion.
