CREPANCE, CREPANE, noun [Latin, to burst.] A chop or cratch in a horses leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot crossing and striking the other hind foot. It sometimes degenerates into an ulcer.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.