Definitions for cruppers

cruppers crup·per

Spelling: [kruhp-er, kroo p-]
IPA: /ˈkrʌp ər, ˈkrʊp-/

Cruppers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 167 anagrams from letters in cruppers (cepprrsu).

Definitions for cruppers

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.
  2. the rump or buttocks of a horse.
  3. armor for the rump of a horse.

Origin of cruppers

1250-1300; Middle English cro(u)per, variant of cruper Anglo-French. See croup2, -er2

Examples for cruppers

And on like wise he did with her back and belly and crupper and thighs and legs.

He puts her on the crupper, and, when midway, asks for amores.

ShagreenMade from the tough skin that covers the crupper of a horse or ass.

Of course, one of them has a crupper already, but that does not amount to much.

crupper's no hog; he knows when he's had plenty, and New York's good enough for him.

Go on, Mr. Fleming; who else was there besides crupper, Smollet, and yourself?'

When the crupper was let out a hole or two it all fitted well.

Edouard took a run, and lighted like a monkey on the horse's crupper.

Sometimes the saddle-cloth, extending to the crupper, was of fur.

crupper cabled from Carlsbad that he was ill, and had not been out of bed for a month.

Word Value for cruppers
Scrable

13

Words with friends

17

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