spavined

adj.

1. Afflicted with spavin: a spavined horse.
2. Marked by damage, deterioration, or ruin: a junkyard full of spavined vehicles.

(SPAV-ind)

adjective
1. Suffering from spavin, a disease involving swelling of hock joints in a horse.
2. Old; decrepit; broken-down.

Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French espavain (swelling).

Usage
"So, you see, we are at the bar off the lobby of the Peace Hotel in Shanghai. At the bandstand is the oldest, most spavined jazz band in existence, playing what is advertised as Dixieland. These guys are so bad they are good." — Allan Fotheringham; One Innocent in Shanghai; Maclean's (Toronto, Canada); Oct 23, 2000.

"If they ever praise each other's bad drawings, or broken-winded novels, or spavined verses, nobody ever supposed it was from admiration; it was simply a contract between themselves and a publisher or dealer." — Oliver Wendell Holmes; The Long Jolt on Public Opinion; The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table; 1858.

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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: (of horses) disabled in the feet or legs
  Synonym: lame

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