Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for STRING'HALT
STRING'HALT, n. [string and halt.]
A sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive motion of the muscles that extend or bend the hough. – Far. Dict. [This word, in some of the United States, is corrupted into Springhalt.]
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