Sentence:  The cry, in certain of its essentials not unlike the wail of a soul in torment, rolled out over the valley, and the young man on the seventh tee, from whose lips it had proceeded, observing that the little troupe of <WSD>spavined</WSD> octogenarians doddering along the fairway paid no attention whatever, gave his driver a twitch as if he was about to substitute action for words. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Old, worn out, obsolete (said figuratively of a person).