Crossword clues for loper
loper
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loper \Lop"er\, n.
One who, or that which, lopes; esp., a horse that lopes.
(Rope Making) A swivel at one end of a ropewalk, used in laying the strands.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who or that which lopes; a runner; a leaper. 2 (context ropemaking English) A swivel placed at one end of the rope-walk, with the whirl being at the opposite end.
Wikipedia
Loper is a surname, and may refer to:
- Alonzo A. Loper (1829–1917), American politician
- Bert Loper (1869–1949), early Grand Canyon river runner
- Daniel Loper (born 1982), American football offensive tackle
- Don Loper (1906–1972), American costume and necktie designer
- Edward L. Loper, Sr. (1916–2011), African American artist
Usage examples of "loper".
With anger for what the Musicians had made the Populars, Loper snapped its thin neck between three fingers, turned and stuffed the raglike corpse into a drain pipe where the patter of rat feet echoed scratchily.
Any longer, and it would have been too late to let the Musicians think they had recaptured the child Loper had kidnapped.
Loper reached into the leather sack tied to his breechcloth and took out the diamond.
We lost three mules and six goats to lopers, but the lopers got the news and started giving us a wide berth.
We - lost three mules and six goats to lopers, but the lopers got the - news and started giving us a wide berth.
Like most older houses, the Harper place had no ground-floor windows and but a single door that fit tightly and opened outward-a design for a time when lopers and dragons were ubiquitous.
Like most older houses, the Harper place had Po ground-floor windows and but a single door that fit tightly and opened outward-a design for a time when lopers and dragons were ubiquitous.
The dogs trotted under the wagons, or ranged aside, warning of lopers or other hazards.
The mules running free had no duties other than to keep eyes out for lopers, save that Buck was at all times grand marshal of the parade, picking the footing, bossing the other mules, carrying out Smith's orders.
Not risk death by thirst, or by lopers, or the treacheries of mountains, or whatever.
But it is foolish to bury a mule when lopers and weather will soon take care of his carcass.
Then I drove the first wagon three or four hundred meters away, unharnessed the mules, and told Beulah to keep them together-and told Ken to help her, and left Fritz to help her, too, and took Lady MacBeth with me to watch for lopers or whatever.
But unlike lopers, they were too stupid to stay away when they were losing.
When wind and weather and rot and lopers and insects have done their worst on a dead dragon, what is left is almost indestructible.
Like most older houses, the Harper place had no ground-floor windows and but a single door that fit tightly and opened outward—a design for a time when lopers and dragons were ubiquitous.