crupper

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crupper

/ˈkɹʌpə/ UK
/ˈkɹʌpɚ/ US
/ˈkɹʊpɚ/ US
/ˈkɹʊpə/ Northern England

Rhymes with -ʌpə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

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.

noun 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.
The buttocks or rump, especially of a horse.
Similar: croup
A piece of armour covering the hindquarters/buttocks of a horse.
Similar: croupiere

verb cruppers · cruppering · cruppered

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

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noun strap stopping saddle from slipping

Español	grupera, ataharre
Português	retranca
Français	croupière
Deutsch	Schweifriemen, Schwanzriemen
Русский	подхво́стник podxvóstnik
العربية	ثَفَر ṯafar, قُوش qūš

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@misc{crupper_2026,
  title = {crupper},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/crupper},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}