3. (old).—A vicious horse.

1825. The English Spy, i. 236. The horse shewed symptoms of being a

miller. The Baronet, nothing daunted, touches him smartly under the

flank, when up he goes in his forequarters, smashes the tilbury

into ten thousand pieces, bolts away with the traces and shafts,

and leaves the baronet with a broken head.

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