leppern.
/ˈlɛpə/ = leaper n. 2a, used frequently of horses in hunting parlance.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > used in hunting > that jumps well
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1907 J. M. Synge Playboy of Western World iii. 66 There you are! Good jumper! Grand lepper.
1920 Baily's Mag. Jan. 37/2 There are plenty of ‘leppers’ at Newmarket this season.
1931 A. J. Cronin Hatter's Castle i. ii. 41 We'll kick off on the leppers. All aboard for the Donegal Hunt.
1937 R. Westerby Wide Boys never Work 173 ‘I put a couple of nicker on Tenderloin. He's a good lepper at that.’..‘Got all the jargon, haven't you? “Good lepper”!—strewth!’
1948 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 362 Among American horse fanciers a jumping horse is called a lepper.
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