crepance

Compare Latin crepare (“to crack”).

crepance (plural crepances)

1. (archaic) An injury in a horse's leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot striking and cutting the other leg, and sometimes causing an ulcer.

• The erroneous form crepane is found in some dictionaries.

• speedy cut

• “crepance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.