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Definition of Skewbald
1. a. Marked with spots and patches of white and some color other than black; -- usually distinguished from piebald, in which the colors are properly white and black. Said of horses.
Definition of Skewbald
1. Adjective. (context: of horses) Marked with patches of white and non-black colours. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Skewbald
1. a horse having patches of brown and white [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skewbald
Literary usage of Skewbald
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"skewbald. I lately heard a neighbour call his bleed ... In Cheshire we find "
Skew, or skewbald, a pie-bald horse." W. On this matter I have sufficiently ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1901)
"A number of prepotent skewbald ponies, wherever placed, would (especially with
the help of preferential mating) in all probability soon give rise to a ..."
3. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"skewbald. I lately heard a neighbour call his ... of red and white horses skewbald:
and he seemed to think that he should not so call them were they black ..."
4. The Penycuik Experiments by James Cossar Ewart (1899)
"Nora's third foal, however, now that it is five months old, as closely resembles
the sire as the Iceland's third foal re,- sembles her prepotent skewbald ..."
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