单词 | crupper |
释义 | cruppern. 1. A leathern strap buckled to the back of the saddle and passing under the horse's tail, to prevent the saddle from slipping forwards. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > tail-harness or crupper after-ropeOE crupperc1300 tail-ropec1325 dockc1400 tail-band1483 saker1607 c1300 K. Alis. 3421 Mony trappe, mony croper, Mony queyntise on armes clere. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur vii. xvi The paytrellys sursenglys and crowpers braste. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxiiiiv Hurt with a saddell or with the buckle of a cropar. 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 14 The Preface might have past as well for a Postscript, or the Headstall for a Crooper. 1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic ii. ii His accoutrements, from the bit to the crupper. 1876 World 5 14 Tight reins, tight cruppers, tight curbs..are the refuges of incompetence. 2. a. transferred. The hind-quarters or rump of a horse; the croup. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > rump or type of croupc1300 crouponc1400 crupper1591 goose-rump1679 hog rump1679 c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 13 A Male twey~foold vpon his croper.] 1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xlvi. c. 402 And both gaue strokes so sound, As made both horses cruppers kisse the ground. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Langio, a disease in a horse about the crupper [1611 in a horses crupper]. 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 29 They must have taken them up behind them on their horse croppers. 1797 Sporting Mag. 10 295 The Crupper, which is round, and reaches from the kidneys to the tail. 1852 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. I. viii. 283 The mules lowered their cruppers and slid down the steepest slopes. ΚΠ 1627 W. Duncomb tr. V. d'Audiguier Tragi-comicall Hist. our Times vi. 98 Cloridon..desirous to get the crupper of his enemie's horse, turned his own speedily. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 68 The King follows them on the Crupper with 13 Troops of Horse. 3. a. The buttocks (of a man). Usually humorous. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [noun] flitcha700 arse-endseOE culec1220 buttockc1300 tail1303 toutec1305 nagea1325 fundamentc1325 tail-end1377 brawna1382 buma1387 bewschers?a1400 crouponc1400 rumplec1430 lendc1440 nachec1440 luddocka1475 rearwarda1475 croupc1475 rumpc1475 dock1508 hurdies1535 bunc1538 sitting place1545 bottom?c1550 prat1567 nates1581 backside1593 crupper1594 posteriorums1596 catastrophe1600 podex1601 posterior1605 seat1607 poop1611 stern1631 cheek1639 breeka1642 doup1653 bumkin1658 bumfiddle1661 assa1672 butt1675 quarter1678 foundation1681 toby1681 bung1691 rear1716 fud1722 moon1756 derrière1774 rass1790 stern-post1810 sit-down1812 hinderland1817 hinderling1817 nancy1819 ultimatum1823 behinda1830 duff?1837 botty1842 rear end1851 latter end1852 hinder?1857 sit1862 sit-me-down1866 stern-works1879 tuchus1886 jacksy-pardy1891 sit-upon1910 can1913 truck-end1913 sitzfleisch1916 B.T.M.1919 fanny1919 bot1922 heinie1922 beam1929 yas yas1929 keister1931 batty1935 bim1935 arse-end1937 twat1937 okole1938 bahookie1939 bohunkus1941 quoit1941 patoot1942 rusty-dusty1942 dinger1943 jacksie1943 zatch1950 ding1957 booty1959 patootie1959 buns1960 wazoo1961 tush1962 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. L4 A close-bellied dublet comming downe..as farre as the crupper. 1631 B. Jonson New Inne iii. i. 67 He cuts me a backe caper with his heeles, And takes me iust o' the crouper. 1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 104 There as she sate upon her Crupper. 1842 R. H. Barham Ingoldsby Penance! in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 104 The Knight on his crupper Received the first taste of the Father's flagellum. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > quarter > hind quarter haunch1481 crupper1725 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Mutton Take a Crupper of..Mutton. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Veal A Quarter or Crupper of Veal. 4. Nautical. a. = crupper-chain n. at Compounds 2. ΚΠ c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 74 The heel of the jib-boom has..a notch for the crupper. b. (See quot. 1867.) ΚΠ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Crupper, the train tackle ring-bolt in a gun-carriage. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. ΚΠ a1652 R. Brome Queen & Concubine iii. iv. 55 in Five New Playes (1659) My back and Crupper-bone is out of joynt. 1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Crupper bone, the coccyx. crupper-compliment n. ΚΠ 1631 B. Jonson New Inne iii. i. 167 I loue no crouper complements. [He had just received a kick on the posteriors.] crupper-evil n. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Le mal de cropion, the Rumpe-euill or Crupper-euill. b. crupper-cramped adj. ΚΠ 1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew iii. sig. G3 I am..so crupper-crampt with our hard lodging. crupper-galled adj. ΚΠ 1689 London Gaz. No. 2486/4 A dark-brown Horse..Crupper-galled. C2. crupper-chain n. Nautical (see quot. 1882). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > chain securing jib-boom crupper-chain1882 1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 13 Crupper chain, a chain passed round the bowsprit and the heel of jib-boom to secure the latter down in its saddle. ΚΠ 1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs xiv. 665 [He] puts about His naked middle a cold crupper-clout. crupper-dock n. that part of the crupper which passes under the horse's tail. ΚΠ 1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. 154 The Crupper dock is mostly stuffed or filled with a tallow candle to make it easy for the horses tail. crupper-loop n. ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 654/1 The rounded portion EB is the crupper-loop. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). crupperv. transitive. To furnish with a crupper, put a crupper upon. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [verb (transitive)] > tack or harness harness13.. putc1550 to put in1709 tackle1714 to put to1732 reharness1775 crupper1787 crup1880 tack1946 1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 18 Sent on a Sunday into Hyde Park, crupper'd up as tight as need be. 1803 Sporting Mag. 21 219 So caparisoned, bitted..and cruppered. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.c1300v.1787 |
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