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crouper

crouper is the obsolete form of crupper.

Meaning of crupper

Noun

crupper (plural cruppers)

  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.1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC...
  2. The buttocks or rump, especially of a horse.
    Synonyms:
    croup
  3. A piece of armour covering the hindquarters/buttocks of a horse.
    Synonyms:
    croupiere

See all 4 meanings of crupper

Forms of crouper

pluralcroupers

Questions about crouper

What is crouper the obsolete form of?
Crouper is the obsolete form of crupper.

Words near crouper in the dictionary

  1. croupade
  2. croupades
  3. croupal
  4. croupe
  5. crouped
  6. crouper
  7. croupers
  8. croupes
  9. croupier
  10. croupier stick
  11. croupier sticks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crouper (page history and authors); crupper (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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