The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games

Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

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Elbow – Eton

Elbow

The backward bony projection from a horse's fore-leg just below the junction of leg and body.

Ergot

The horny excrescence just at the fetlock joint, from which the fetlock itself depends. Sometimes applied to the castors or chestnuts higher up the leg.

Ewe Neck

A thin, hollow neck.

Eglinton's

Earl of.

Eskdaill.

Fife.

Jed Forest.

Lanark and Renfrew.

Lauderdale.

Liddesdale.

Linlithgow and Stirling.

Carbery.

Carlow.

IRELAND.

Coollattin.

Coshmore and Coshbride.

Duhallow.

Durham, North.

Durham, South.

Eggesford.

Eridge.

Eskdale and Ennerdale

Monmouthshire.

Essex

East.

Essex and Suffolk.

Essex Union.

Exeter

Marquis of.

Exmoor.

Farndale.

Earth

The lair or burrow of the fox.

Earth-stopper

A person employed to stop earths. It is done while the fox is abroad at night, and on his return he finds himself stopped out. All earths are stopped in the district in which hounds are expected to be on any hunting day.

Enter

Young hounds when first put into the pack are said to be "entered."

Eye to hounds. The art of watching the leading hounds, and so following them by the shortest line.

Ely

Littleport, to Adelaide Bridge, 3 miles.

Eton

3 miles and under.

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