Now dial. Also wallace. [Of obscure origin: cf. WARRIDGE.] The withers of a horse.
1686. Lond. Gaz., No. 2181/4. The 6th Instant a proper Gentleman … rode away with a black brown Gelding,… bare of flesh, hath had a hurt on the Wallis.
1787. W. H. Marshall, Norf. (1795), II. 391. Wallace, the withers of a horse.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Wallis, the withers of a horse.
