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Crupper

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A leather strap looped under a horse's tail and attached to a harness or saddle to keep it from slipping forward.

n. The rump of a horse; the croup.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A strap used to stop a saddle from slipping.

n. The buttocks or rump, especially of a horse.

n. A piece of armour covering the hindquarters of a horse.

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

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The buttocks or rump of a horse.

n. A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards.

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

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The buttocks of a horse; the rump.

n. A. strap of leather which is buckled at one end to the back of a saddle, or to the saddle of a harness, and at the other passes by a loop under the horse's tail, to prevent the saddle from slipping forward. Also crouper. See cut under harness.

To put a crupper on: as, to crupper a horse.

n. Nautical, the train-tackle bolt in a gun-carriage.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a strap from the back of a saddle passing under the horse's tail; prevents saddle from slipping forward

Word Usage

"Perched behind him on the crupper was a cheetah, a gilded collar around its neck, a chain of silver links running between it and the groom's hand."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

strap

Cross Reference

rump crupper loop crupper notch crupper bolt crupper chain

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

loop dock

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