WITHERS as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals
    Hypernyms(s) withers is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
  2. Meaning
    • sensibility to trouble (as in the phrase `wring one’’s withers”)
    Usage Example(s)
    • the lawsuit was wringing his withers
    • our withers are unwrung–Shakespeare
    Hypernyms(s) withers is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower