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WITHERS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
The highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("withers" is a kind of...):
body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)
Holonyms ("withers" is a part of...):
Equus caballus; horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)
ox (an adult castrated bull of the genus Bos; especially Bos taurus)
sheep (woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat)
cervid; deer (distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb wither