Sway-backed

3 definitions found

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

  Sway-backed \Sway"-backed`\, a.
     Having the back hollow or sagged, whether naturally or as the
     result of injury or weakness; -- said of horses and other
     animals.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  swaybacked
       adj : having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses)
             [syn: {dipped}, {lordotic}, {swayback}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "swaybacked":
     bandy, bandy-legged, blemished, bloated, bowlegged, club-footed,
     defaced, deformed, disfigured, dwarfed, flatfooted, grotesque,
     ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, knock-kneed, malformed,
     marred, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous,
     mutilated, out of shape, pigeon-toed, pug-nosed, rachitic, rickety,
     simous, snub-nosed, stumpy, talipedic, truncated