Hypertext Webster Gateway: "heaves"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Heaves \Heaves\, n.
A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing,
with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a
peculiar cough; broken wind.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
heaves
n : a chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult
expiration and heaving of the flanks [syn: {broken wind}]
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