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cold back

adj, noun — 5 senses

cold-back

adjalso spelled cold-back
1

Of a horse Refusing to bear weight on its back; bucking and shying when anything is put on the back.

  • A cold-back bronc raises his head up high as a single cowboy walks toward him to mount in the cold morning air.1995, James P. McCall, The Stallion: A Breeding Guide for Owners and Handlers, page 3:
  • You go back to the corral and saddle that cold-back sumbitch and put on your chaps and spurs.2009, John Duncklee, Zemo, page 49:

cold back

noun
1

Alternative Alternative form of cold-back.

  • Some horses and ponies have "cold backs" or are "cinchy."1993, Judy Richter, Philip Richter, Pony Talk: A Complete Learning Guide for Young Riders, page 4:
  • That last paragraph leads us to a singularly important aspect of the syndrome of cold back.1998, James R. Rooney, The Lame Horse, page 198:
3 more examples
  • 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.2002, Captain M. Horace Hayes, Roy Knightbridge, Veterinary Notes for Horse Owners, page 814:
  • 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.2009, Derek C. Knottenbelt, Pascoe's Principles and Practice of Equine Dermatology:
  • The signs of a cold back are usually exhibited when the saddle is put on, the girth tightened or as the rider mounts.2013, Kenneth W Hinchcliff, Andris J. Kaneps, Raymond J. Geor, Equine Sports Medicine and Surgery, page 428:
2

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cold, back.

cold-back

noun
1

A syndrome in which a horse refuses to accept anything on its back (often a symptom of chronic lower back soreness)

  • It is difficult to compare the human counterpart of what Jeffcott describes as another 'well known' problem in horses, namely, "cold-back".1980, R Grahame, Low Back Pain - Volume 2, page 16:
  • Such maladies as osteoarthritis of various joints (spavin in the hocks, ringbone in the pasterns, osselets in the fetlocks, navicular disease in the heels of the forefeet) are very common, as is chronic lower back soreness (coldback) in the lumbar, sacral, and thoracic regions.1992, Barbara T. Engel, Margaret L. Galloway, Therapeutic Riding Programs:
2 more examples
  • If horses exhibit a cold-back, it may well signify an underlying problem, but some horses that have only a cold-back and no other signs or performance deficit can be managed by lunging before riding or gradually tightening the girth.1997, Current Therapy in Equine Medicine - Volume 4, page 11:
  • One of the most debated subjects in the whole of equestrianism is whether or not horses have bad backs. For some horsemen, a horse with a 'cold-back' is merely demonstrating eccentric behaviour; for others, every unexpected response is indicative of a back problem.1998, Sara Wyche, Understanding the Horse's Back, page 43:
2

A horse with cold-back.

  • "Guess he's a cold-back," Slim observed when Blackie had calmed down somewhat.1996, Ian Wilson, Sally Wilson, Gold Rush: North to Alaska and the Klondike, page 33:
  • The stud colt had taken to halter and bit easily enough, but he was a coldback. He had shied at the blanket and rejected the weighted feed sacks Adam had hung over his back before introducing the saddle.2009, David Karcher, Winter Kill, page 17:

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