Heaves

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Heaves \Heaves\, n.
     A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing,
     with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a
     peculiar cough; broken wind.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  heaves
       n : a chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult
           expiration and heaving of the flanks [syn: {broken wind}]