What is the meaning of Spavin?

2. 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