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Vinony

crupper

noun

  1. tail-strap on a saddle
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈkɹʌpə/ / /ˈkɹʌpɚ/ / /ˈkɹʊpɚ/

noun

Etymology: From Middle English croper, crouper, from Anglo-Norman cruper, cropere, from Old French cropiere, crupiere, from the same Germanic root as croup. Doublet of croupiere.

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

    “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.”

    “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...”

  2. The buttocks or rump, especially of a horse.
  3. A piece of armour covering the hindquarters/buttocks of a horse.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English croper, crouper, from Anglo-Norman cruper, cropere, from Old French cropiere, crupiere, from the same Germanic root as croup. Doublet of croupiere.

  1. To fit with a crupper; to place a crupper upon.

    “to crupper a horse”