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The highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals
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withers
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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," ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a plant withers (= becomes drier and starts to die ) EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Check that the saddle fits correctly and is neither too low on the withers or spine. ▪ Distance from withers to elbow and elbow to ground is ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The withers is a part of the back of a horse, dog or other quadruped. Withers or Wither may also refer to:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Withers \With"ers\, n. pl. [Properly, the parts which resist the pull or strain in drawing a load; fr. OE. wither resistance, AS. wi[eth]re, fr. wi[eth]er against; akin to G. widerrist withers. See With , prep.] The ridge between the shoulder bones of a ...
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.