Crossword clues for crupper
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crupper \Crup"per\ (kr?p"p?r in U.S.; kr?p"?r in Eng.), n. [F. croupi?re, fr. croupe. See Croup the rump of a horse.]
The buttocks or rump of a horse.
A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards.
Crupper \Crup"per\, v. t. To fit with a crupper; to place a crupper upon; as, to crupper a horse. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
n. 1 A strap, looped under a horse's tail, used to stop a saddle from slipping. 2 The buttocks or rump, especially of a horse. 3 A piece of armour covering the hindquarters of a horse. vb. To fit with a crupper; to place a crupper upon.
WordNet
n. a strap from the back of a saddle passing under the horse's tail; prevents saddle from slipping forward
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "crupper".
Everywhere Qynh turned she saw horses prancing and shuffling impatient hooves as early morning sunlight winked off of silver chanfrons and crinets, gleaming against polished cruppers.
According to Kellaart, three inconspicuous brown dorsal streaks diverging and terminating on the crupper, and some very indistinct spots seen only in some lights.
There were bright pin-up calendars, promising, after the mild though windy winter, torrid abandon renewed, golden flesh, the heartbreaking wagging cruppers of the bikinied young over the golden beaches.
And they gave each other such a shock, that the girths of their horses were broken, so that they fell over their horses' cruppers to the ground.
A confusion of helmets, of cries, of sabres, a stormy heaving of the cruppers of horses amid the cannons and the flourish of trumpets, a terrible and disciplined tumult.
Obediently, Aldora slipped from the mare's low crupper and raced down the western slope, broadbeaming, without being aware of it, a mindcall for help.
It was a delight to put him on a high-mettled horse, and send him after the hounds,—pale, sweating, calling on us, for Heaven's sake, to stop, and holding on for dear life by the mane and the crupper.
Every man was festooned with weapons: big steel knives, tomahawks, war clubs that looked like giant potato mashers, round shields of painted hide slung at the cruppers of their simple pad saddles.
You can trick out a milk cow in crupper, crinet, and charnfron, and bard her all in silk, but that doesn't mean you can ride her into battle.