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Part of a horse between the shoulder blades
Answer for the clue "Part of a horse between the shoulder blades ", 7 letters:
withers
Alternative clues for the word withers
- Part of a horse's back
- Area below a horse's neck
- Sensibility to trouble (as in the phrase
- Lose freshness, vigor, or vitality
- Part between a horse's shoulder blades
- Ridge at the base of a horse'd neck, from which its height is measured
- US singer-songwriter accompanying Queen at the end of gigs
- The highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals
Word definitions for withers in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, probably from a dialectal survival of Old English wiðer "against, contrary, opposite" (see with ) + plural suffix. Usually said to be so called because the withers are the parts of the animal that oppose the load. Compare German Widerrist "withers," ...
Usage examples of withers.
As it withers, the many-pointed leaf of the white bryony and the bine as it shrivels, in like manner, do their part.
Mr Boffin, who hear it, rejoiced within himself, comforting himself with the reflection that his withers were unwrung, and thinking with what pleasure he might carry the anecdote into the farthest corners of the clubs.