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.
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Crupper
//ˈkɹʊpəɹ//
Synonyms for "crupper" (64 found)
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Related words (32)
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Translations
33 translations across 24 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- kuskun noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
Arabic
2 entries- ثَفَر noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
- قُوش noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
Bulgarian
1 entries- подопа́шник noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
Catalan
1 entries- rabasta noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
East Yugur
1 entries- ghudurgha noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
Finnish
2 entries- häntähihna noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
- häntäremmi noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
French
1 entries- croupière noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
Galician
2 entries- atafal noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
- retranca noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
German
2 entries- Schwanzriemen noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
- Schweifriemen noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
Hungarian
2 entries- farhám noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
- farmatring noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
Kazakh
1 entries- құйысқан noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
Latin
1 entries- postilēna noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
Macedonian
1 entries- подопашник noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
Mongolian
1 entries- хударга noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
Old English
1 entries- æfterrāp noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- قوسقون noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
- پاردم noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
Polish
1 entries- podogonie noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
Portuguese
1 entries- retranca noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
Russian
1 entries- подхво́стник noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
Spanish
2 entries- ataharre noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
- grupera noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
Swedish
1 entries- svansrem noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
Tagalog
2 entries- batikola noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
- sabuntot noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
Turkish
2 entries- at sağrısı noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
- kuskun noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
Ukrainian
1 entries- підхві́стя noun (strap stopping saddle from slipping)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
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...
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Captain 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 fitted comfortably, as if he had been John Manly over again. When the crupper was let out a hole or two, it all fitted well. There was no bearing rein—no curb—nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!
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I sought among the mules one with a mild expression of generosity and gentleness in its eyes, and found it in a white mule with a crupper adorned with arabesques.
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