crupper
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1VERB + CRUPPER
want
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noun
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.
he eſpied a mule's crupper, which hung to the ceiling of the room; this he took down, and tendering it to Don Quixote, went on, ſaying...
The buttocks or rump, especially of a horse.
A piece of armour covering the hindquarters/buttocks of a horse.
verb
To fit with a crupper; to place a crupper upon.
to crupper a horse
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4Our 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.
Wiktionaryhe eſpied a mule's crupper, which hung to the ceiling of the room; this he took down, and tendering it to Don Quixote, went on, ſaying...
WiktionaryCaptain went out in the cab all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the cab. Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle
Wiktionaryto crupper a horse
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