What is the meaning of Spavin?

  1. A bony swelling which develops in a horse's leg where the shank and splint bone meet, caused by inflammation of the cartilage connecting those bones; also, a similar swelling caused by inflammation of the hock bones.

    A bony swelling which develops in a horse's leg where the shank and splint bone meet, caused by inflammation of the cartilage connecting those bones; also, a similar swelling caused by inflammation of the hock bones.

    A disease of horses caused by this bony swelling (sense 1.1).

    A similar disease causing a person's leg to be lame.

    To cause (a horse or its leg) to have spavin (noun sense 1.2).

    To impair or injure (someone or something).

    The stratum of earth underneath a coal deposit.

    Source: wiktionary.org