- blast, buffet. A poignant word picture of an old work horse, lame with stringhalt and spavin is painted by John Caie in The Kindly North (1934):
The orra beastie’s cleekit, spavin’t, aul’,
A blaffart o’ win’ wad ca the cratur totterin’.
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