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His crest should be firm, thin, and well-risen ; his neck long and straight, yet not loose and pliant, which our north countrymen term withy cragged...
(Farriery on a New and Easy Plan: Being a Treatise on the Diseases and Accidents of The Horse, John Badcock, 1883)
WITHY-CRAGGED, adj. Said of a horse whose neck is loose and pliant. North.
(Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English, Thomas Wright, 1886)
January 15, 2013