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Meanings of swaybacked in English

Having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses)

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Usage of swaybacked in English
1
A suspended orchestra played swaybacked music attuned to the strange mechanical dances.
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2
It caused her to walk slightly swaybacked, although ordinarily her posture was perfect.
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3
They wait, swaybacked, until Patstone finishes and Gallagher again calls for the count.
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4
Many were on their last legs, hardly better than swaybacked nags.
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5
The staircase was a narrow gullet with wooden risers swaybacked from years of traffic.
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6
Wait! He looked around to see three dusty, footsore monks leading a swaybacked plough horse.
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7
There was no swaybacked gray tied to the hitch rail in front of the saloon.
Lonesome dove
8
One turtle had a swaybacked shell, the result of lordosis, a spinal disorder caused by malnutrition.
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9
Everything about her seemed pushed forward and swaybacked.
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10
The grave's swaybacked look might be noticed.
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11
In a warm upstairs bedroom she lay in the sunken center of a large, swaybacked bed, sleeping.
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12
The house was another swaybacked old ranch.
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13
The cottages were, like the rectory, Tudor in style, their roofs running together and almost swaybacked with age.
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14
The parlour had once been two rooms, and the floor was swaybacked where the partition had been cut away.
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15
They were so swaybacked and rough-gaited that it jarred his bones just to watch them amble about the campsite.
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16
The Metro-industrial shelving units designed to bear thousands of pounds-wasbending, sinking, swaybacked under the rods like it was melting.
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