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sitfast

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noun

  1. a sore on a horse's back caused by rubbing of the saddle
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of sitfast1

C17: from sit + fast 1(in the sense: secure, fixed)
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If a sitfast has developed, the dead hornlike slough must be carefully dissected out and the wound treated carefully with antiseptics.

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Only forty minutes from the City Hall—any old City Hall," he answered, "It's at Jiggersville, on the Sitfast & Chewsmoke R.R., eighteen miles from Anywhere, hot and cold sidewalks and no mosquitoes in the winter.

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Nay the very mode of riding: for now no man on a level with his age but will trot a l'Anglaise, rising in the stirrups; scornful of the old sitfast method, in which, according to Shakspeare, 'butter and eggs' go to market.

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