English
soring
From sore + -ing.
Formed from sore + -ing
Proto-Indo-European *seh₂iro-
Proto-Germanic *sairaz ‘sore, painful’
Proto-West Germanic *sair ‘painful, sore’
Old English sār ‘ache, wound’
Middle English sor
English sore
Today it means
noun The practice of making it painful for a horse's feet to touch the ground, resulting in the horse picking its feet up quickly, with the goal of accentuating its gait.
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Etymograph / soring