crepance

== English == === Etymology === Compare Latin crepare (“to crack”). === Noun === crepance (plural crepances) (archaic) An injury in a horse's leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot striking and cutting the other leg, and sometimes causing an ulcer. ==== Usage notes ==== The erroneous form crepane is found in some dictionaries. ==== See also ==== speedy cut === References === “crepance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.