crupper

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɹʌpə/    美 /ˈkɹʌpɚ/|/ˈkɹʊpɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. The buttocks or rump, especially of a horse.
  3. A piece of armour covering the hindquarters/buttocks of a horse.
动词 v.
  1. To fit with a crupper; to place a crupper upon.
    — to crupper a horse

词形变化

cruppers plural cruppers present,singular,third-person cruppering participle,present cruppered participle,past cruppered past

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
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