ewt

A Middle English spelling of yew. ewaget, n. [ME., Fetislich hir fyngres were fretted with golde wyre, And there-on red rubyes as red as any glede, And diamantz of derrest pris and double manere safferes, Orient a les and ewages enuenymes to destroye. Piers Plowman (B), ii. 14. down, or comb, in the south of England. T. Hardy. ewe-neck (u'nek), n. A thin hollow neck: used of horses. The animal he bestrode was a broken-down plough horse, gaunt and shagged, with a ewe - neck , and a head like a hammer. Irving , Sketch-Book, p. 436. ewe-necked (ü'nekt), a. Having a thin, hollow neck like a ewe's, as a horse.