sand crack

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   a fissure in the wall of a horse's hoof often causing lameness

   Broaderanimal disease

   Narrowertoe crackquarter crack

Questions about sand crack

What does sand crack mean?

sand crack means "a fissure in the wall of a horse's hoof often causing lameness".

Is sand crack a common word?

sand crack is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.