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soring

soring noun: the practice of making it painful for a horse's feet to touch the ground, resulting in the horse picking its feet up quickly, with the goal of accentuating its gait.

Noun

soring (uncountable)

  1. The practice of making it painful for a horse's feet to touch the ground, resulting in the horse picking its feet up quickly, with the goal of accentuating its gait.

Origin of soring

From sore + -ing.

Questions about soring

What does soring mean?
Soring means the practice of making it painful for a horse's feet to touch the ground, resulting in the horse picking its feet up quickly, with the goal of accentuating its gait.
What part of speech is soring?
Soring is a noun.

Words near soring in the dictionary

  1. soricomorphs
  2. soridia
  3. soridium
  4. sorie
  5. soriferous
  6. soring
  7. sorite
  8. sorites
  9. sorites paradox
  10. sorites paradoxes
  11. soritic

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