crupper

/kruhp-er, kroop-/US // ˈkrʌp ər, ˈkrʊp- //UK // (ˈkrʌpə) //

钉子户,钉子钳,钉子,钉书钉

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : 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.

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.