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withers

英['wɪðəz] 美['wɪðɚz]
  • n. [脊椎] 马肩隆(马肩骨间的隆起部);感情,情绪

英英释意


1. sensibility to trouble (as in the phrase `wring one's withers');
"the lawsuit was wringing his withers"
"our withers are unwrung"--Shakespeare
2. the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals