crupper

Meanings

Noun

• A strap, looped under a horse's tail, used to stop a saddle from slipping.
• 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.

Origin

• From Middle English crupper, crouper, cropere, from Anglo-Norman cruper, cropere, from Old French cropiere, crupiere, from the same Germanic root as croup. croupiere.