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Middle English
- cropell, cropier, cropore, cropoure, cropper, croppere, cropure, crouper, croupere, croupyr, crowper, crowpere, cruppure
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman cruper (“croupiere”); equivalent to croupe + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kruˈpeːr/, /ˈkrupər/
Noun
croper (plural cropers)
- A croupiere (armour covering a horse's hindquarters)
- Synonym: cropoun
- The croupe or hindquarters of a horse.
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