Synonyms:
withers
Meaning: the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals
Usage examples
After the juice is thus drawn out, the tree withers and dies.
Thanks to this pleasant plan, there was not much opportunity for Withers and Mary to be idle. . . .
"No one can work as neatly as you, Withers," she said gaily, "and I shall ask you to do the most difficult part.
I shall be at home to nobody, Withers, this afternoon, even if the Prince of Wales came and sat on my doorstep again.
Withers had answered the telephone, and came to announce that Twemlow the grocer regretted he had only two large tins of corned beef, but--
Ladies, to whom the advice contained in this paragraph is particularly addressed, know how the shadow of suspicion withers and torments them.
He sat on his withers, and reaching forward as he ate his hay, he curried and he brushed, first at one side of his neck, and then at the other.
"Then say I will have the tongue as well, Withers," said Miss Mapp. "Just a tongue--and then I shall want you and Mary to do some cutting out for me."
This with considerable exertion she transferred to a high shelf in the cupboard, instead of allowing it to remain standing on the floor, for Withers had informed her of an unpleasant rumour about a mouse, which Mary had observed, lost in thought in front of the cupboard.