Withers

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  • noun plural. The high part of the back of a horse or other quadruped, located between the shoulder blades.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The highest part of the back of a horse, between the shoulderblades and behind the root of the neck, where the mane ceases to grow: as, a horse 15 hands high at the withers.
  • noun. The barbs or flukes of a harpoon; the witters: so called by British whalemen.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun plural. The ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, at the base of the neck. See Illust. of horse.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The part of the back of a draft animal or horse that is the highest, between the shoulder blades.
  • verb. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wither.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals
    • Word Usage
    "When Carmel itself "withers," how utter the desolation!"
    cross-reference
    casting of the withers  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    body part  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    nape  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    dithers  smithers  zithers  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    scruff  
    variant
    horse  
    verb-stem
    wither  
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