expediating

Verb

expediate (third-person singular simple present expediates, present participle expediating, simple past and past participle expediated)

1. (historical, rare, transitive) To injure (a dog) by cutting away the pads of the forefeet, thereby preventing it from hunting.
   • EXPEDIATE—is a term tranſmitted from one book to another by former writers, but is at preſent little uſed in either theory or practice. It implies the cutting out the centrical ball of the foot of a dog, or ſuch claws as ſhall totally prevent his purſuit of game. In earlier times, when the forest...1803, William Taplin, The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository of General Information Upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field, Vernor and Hood, page 236

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