Crupper

Quick meaning: Crupper is a noun meaning A strap, looped under a horse's tail, used to stop a saddle from slipping.

Meaning

A strap, looped under a horse's tail, used to stop a saddle from slipping.

More Meanings

1. The buttocks or rump, especially of a horse.
2. A piece of armour covering the hindquarters/buttocks of a horse.
3. To fit with a crupper; to place a crupper upon.

Example Sentences

to crupper a horse

he eſpied a mule's crupper, which hung to the ceiling of the room; this he took down, and tendering it to Don Quixote, went on, ſaying.

Our knight did bear no less a pack / Of his own buttocks on his back: / Which now had almost got the upper- / Hand of his head, for want of crupper.

I sought among the mules one with a mild expression of generosity and gentleness in its eyes, and found it in a white mule with a crupper adorned with arabesques.

Word Forms

• cruppers
• cruppering
• cruppered

Synonyms for crupper

Depending on context, synonyms include croup, croupiere.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include breaststrap, surcingle, chambon, croupiere, undercloth, overcheck.

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