crupper
/ˈkɹʌpə/US/ˈkɹʌpɚ/
crupper noun: a strap, looped under a horse's tail, used to stop a saddle from slipping.
Noun
crupper (plural cruppers)
- 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...
- 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...1784, Alonzo Fernandez de Avellaneda, translated by William Augustus Yardley, A continuation of the history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha: The Novelist's Magazine, volume...
- The buttocks or rump, especially of a horse.
- Synonyms:
- croup
- A piece of armour covering the hindquarters/buttocks of a horse.
- Synonyms:
- croupiere
Verb
crupper (third-person singular simple present cruppers, present participle cruppering, simple past and past participle cruppered)
- To fit with a crupper; to place a crupper upon.
- to crupper a horse
crupper meaning in Tamil, Tagalog and Arabic
crupper in Tamil
- வளையப்பட்டி, வாற்பட்டி
crupper in Tagalog
- strap stopping saddle from slipping
- sabuntot, batikola
crupper in Arabic
- strap stopping saddle from slipping
- ثَفَر ṯafar, قُوش qūš
Examples of crupper in a sentence
- When the crupper was let out a hole or two, it all fitted well.[1877], Anna Sewell, “A London Cab Horse”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part III, page 158:
- 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.1882, Edmondo de Amicis, Morocco: Its People & Places, tr. C. Rollin-Tilton
Synonyms of crupper
Forms of crupper
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cruppers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cruppers |
| present participle | cruppering |
| past participle | cruppered |
| past | cruppered |
Origin of crupper
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.
Words that rhyme with crupper
Questions about crupper
- What does crupper mean?
- Crupper means a strap, looped under a horse's tail, used to stop a saddle from slipping.
- What is crupper in Tamil?
- Crupper in Tamil is வளையப்பட்டி, வாற்பட்டி. See Crupper meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use crupper in a sentence?
- When the crupper was let out a hole or two, it all fitted well.
- What part of speech is crupper?
- Crupper can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce crupper?
- Crupper is pronounced /ˈkɹʌpə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of crupper?
- The plural of crupper is cruppers.
Words near crupper in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: crupper (page history and authors); crupper (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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