loper

Meaning

Noun

• One who or that which lopes; a runner; a leaper.
• A swivel placed at one end of the ropewalk, with the whirl being at the opposite end.
• A wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf.

Origin

• From lope + -er.
• From American Spanish lobo ("wolf") (), reinterpreted as or conflated with loper; compare the alternative forms which reflect other re-interpretations and conflations.