WITHERS


Meaning of WITHERS in English

n.pl. the ridge between a horse's shoulder-blades.

[ shortening of (16th-c.) widersome (or -sone) f. wider-, wither- against (cf. WITH), as the part that resists the strain of the collar: second element obscure ]

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