crupper / ˈkrʌp ər, ˈkrʊp- /
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crupper 的定义
n. 名词 noun- a leather strap fastened to the saddle of a harness and looping under the tail of a horse to prevent the harness from slipping forward.
- the rump or buttocks of a horse.
- armor for the rump of a horse.
更多crupper例句
- The common horse is higher, leaner, less broad on the chest, and with the crupper thinner and more depressed.
- He had placed the youngest before him, and the other, a boy of ten years of age, was seated on the mule's crupper.
- Back went Peter beneath the blow, back and still back, till almost he lay upon his horse's crupper.
- The back of the horse is protected by the Croupire or Crupper, which is made up of several pieces riveted or hinged together.
- In fetching her from the burg, the brutal leude had barely given her time to dress before lifting her on the crupper of his horse.