Crupper

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkɹʌpÉ™/

Origin

Anglo-Norman cropere, from Old French cropiere, from the same Germanic base as croup.

Full definition of crupper

Noun

1. A strap, looped under a horse's tail, used to stop a saddle from slipping.
• 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1,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.
• 1784 —Alonzo Fernandez de Avellaneda, A continuation of the history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha, tr. William Augustus Yardley, The Novelist's Magazine volume 16, page 112.he eÅ¿pied a mule's crupper, which hung to the ceiling of the room; this he took down, and tendering it to Don Quixote, went on, Å¿aying...
• 1877, Anna Sewell, Black BeautyCaptain went out in the cab all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the cab. Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably as if he had been John Manly over again. When the crupper was let out a hole or two it all fitted well. There was no check-rein, no curb, nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!
• 1882 — Edmondo de Amicis, Morocco: Its People & Places, tr. C. Rollin-TiltonI 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.
2. The buttocks or rump, especially of a horse.
3. A piece of armour covering the hindquarters of a horse.

Synonyms

• (The buttocks or rump) croupe

Verb

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