Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
crupper , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
crupper .
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- noun Obsolete form of
crupper .
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Examples
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A few moments later, a rifle ball cut the crouper of
An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America 1893
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Alkmene, stronger, or more adroit, with one bound leaped to the saddle; while poor Diana landed upon the crouper, and, as if ashamed, with hanging head and tail, withdrew behind the horse.
Old Fritz and the New Era Peter [Translator] Langley 1843
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