wither-wrung
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]wither-wrung (not comparable)
- Injured or hurt in the withers, as a horse.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, The Drums of the Fore and Aft:
- They learned the heart-breaking cussedness of camp-kitchens and camels and the depravity of an E. P. tent and a wither-wrung mule.