Roarer.

A broken-winded horse is so called from the noise it makes in breathing.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

River of Paradise
River Flowing from the Ocean Inland
Rivers
Roach
Road
Road or Roadstead
Road-agent
Roads
Roan
Roan Barbary
Roarer
Roaring Boys or Roarers
Roaring Forties (The)
Roaring Game (The)
Roaring Trade
Roast
Roasting One
Rob
Rob Roy [Robert the Red]
Robber
Robbing Peter to pay Paul