Croup

Quick meaning: Croup is a noun meaning The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.

Meaning

The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.

More Meanings

1. (pathology) An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty.
2. (obsolete outside dialects) To croak, make a hoarse noise.

Example Sentences

So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, / So light to the saddle before her he sprung.

Curved like a stallion's croup, from dusk to dawn, / And drums upon it with his heels, whereby / Is bred the neighing thunder in the hills.

The guib [a kind of antelope] is of the mean dimensions, or four feet and a half in total length, and two and a half high at the shoulders, but rather higher at the croup.

Yes; I've nursed five children and buried three; and the one I loved the best of all, and tended through croup, and teething, and measles, and hooping-cough, and brought up with foreign masters, regardless of expense, […].

Word Forms

• croups
• crouping
• crouped

Synonyms for croup

Depending on context, synonyms include rump, hindquarters, croupe.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rump, croupe, hindquarters, group, crupper, croupade.

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