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10:00 Mar 21, 2012 |
English language (monolingual) [PRO] Livestock / Animal Husbandry / Australian term | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Charles Davis Spain Local time: 06:04 | ||||||
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4 +3 | pawing (the ground): spelling mistake |
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pawing (the ground): spelling mistake Explanation: I see Catherine has suggested this just as I was about to post. Everything points to this. Farriers are people who attend to horse's feet. A quarter crack is a crack in the hoof. "Cross tie" means securing the horse for attention. If it paws the ground (ie. runs its hoofs along the ground, probably because it is agitated and distressed at being cross-tied), it may well damage its hoof, especially since it is presumably unshod at the time. Plenty of people have problems spelling the homophones "Pour" "paw" and "pore", and not particularly in Australia. Here are seven examples from Australia of "pouring the ground", all of which should read "pawing the ground": https://www.google.es/search?num=100&hl=es&lr=&cr=countryAU&... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 57 mins (2012-03-21 10:57:55 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I should be more careful when commenting on other peoples' mistakes: I meant to write "Farriers are people who attend to horses' feet". "Runs its hoofs along the ground" is not wrong, but the plural of hoof is more commonly "hooves". |
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