dial. Forms: α. 8 loore, lure, 9 loor, lore, lewer. β. 6 loue, 8 lough, 9 lo(o, low. [Origin and correct form uncertain.] Foot-rot.
1587. Mascall, Govt. Cattle, Oxen (1596), 77. The loue is a disease which breedeth in the clawes of a beast.
a. 1722. Lisle, Husb. (1757), 296. Farmer Elford of Upcern in Dorsetshire tells me, cows will be so sore between their claws that they cannot stand,… this he and others informed me, in that country was called the loore.
1787. Grose, Prov. Gloss., Lure, a sore on the hoof of a cow, cured by cutting it crossways. West.
1799. C. Cooke, in Beddoes, Contrib. Phys. & Med. Knowl., 393. The lough, swellings of the udder, and cow-pox.
1840. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., I. III. 320. Another form of this complaint [foot-rot], and known also by the names of foot-halt, lore, &c. … generally proceeds from a strain or blow. Ibid. (1848), IX. II. 445. Foul in the foot, or Low.
1882. Armatage, Cattle, 213. Foul in the Foot.—Paronychia Boum, Loo or Low.
1883. Hampsh. Gloss., Lewer, a disease in the feet of cattle.
1890. Glouc. Gloss., Loor, Loo, Lo, a sore on a cow’s hoof.
