cold back
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.98 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of cold-back.
Example Sentences
- "Some horses and ponies have "cold backs" or are "cinchy.""
- "That last paragraph leads us to a singularly important aspect of the syndrome of cold back."
- "The question of whether biting, kicking, rearing, bucking and napping are vices is moot - still more so those horses with headshaking syndrome or cold backs - none of which, the author believes, can truly be described as vices."
- "Note: in some cases the pain may precede the development of overt lesions and the horse may be presented for a 'cold back ' or saddle resentment."
- "The signs of a cold back are usually exhibited when the saddle is put on, the girth tightened or as the rider mounts."
- "I had learned by then to hog it out with most cold back horses but knew little of real breaking."