foot rot

Also called fouls, stinkyfoot. Veterinary Pathology. an infection of sheep, causing inflammatory changes in the area of the hoofs and lameness.

Plant Pathology. a stem rot at ground level; crown rot.

Origin of foot rot

First recorded in 1800–10; foot + rot

It is said that they assist in draining the land, and thus prevent the foot-rot in sheep.

Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom |Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Many an Ayrshire and Hereford has had the hollow-horn and the foot-rot.

Around The Tea-Table |T. De Witt Talmage
There does exist a disease there, however, similar to foot-rot in sheep, that is proving fatal to many cattle.

Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 |Various
Cleanliness in every stage and variety of foot-rot, is of the first importance.

A Treatise on Sheep: |Ambrose Blacklock

Mr. Bakewell's Liquid for the cure of the Foot-rot in Sheep.

Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million |Sarah Josepha Hale

foot rot

vet science See rot 1 (def. 11)