loper

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who or that which lopes; a runner; a leaper.
    — Wolves are very intelligent animals, and they are lopers and they are survivors.
  2. A wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf. Southwestern,US,dialectal
    — When I was still some distance above the ford, about a dozen prairie wolves and one loper* wolf ran up from the water. They told me that there were no Indians near here or they would not be here; and they were not here long, either. [...] the big loper left on a slow gallop [...] Loper, corruption of Sp. lobo, wolf.
  3. A swivel placed at one end of the ropewalk, with the whirl being at the opposite end.

词形变化

lopers plural lopers plural

词汇关系

相关词
geländeläufer interloper landloper

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English lope
English -er
English loper
From lope (“to leap, to run”) + -er.
词源 2
From American Spanish lobo (“wolf”) (/ˈloβo/), reinterpreted as or conflated with loper (“one who lopes”); compare the alternative forms which reflect other re-interpretations and conflations.
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