Cropper vs Crupper - What's the difference?
cropper | crupper |
a fall, a tumble; see come a cropper
* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 185:
a person who nurtures and gathers a crop
a variety of plant producing a good harvest
A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.
A strap, looped under a horse's tail, used to stop a saddle from slipping.
* 1663 , :
* 1784 , Alonzo Fernandez de Avellaneda, A continuation of the history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha'', tr. William Augustus Yardley, ''The Novelist's Magazine volume 16, page 112:
* 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty):
* 1882 , Edmondo de Amicis, Morocco: Its People & Places , tr. C. Rollin-Tilton:
The buttocks or rump, especially of a horse.
A piece of armour covering the hindquarters of a horse.
As nouns the difference between cropper and crupper
is that cropper is a fall, a tumble; see come a cropper while crupper is a strap, looped under a horse's tail, used to stop a saddle from slipping.As a proper noun Cropper
is {{surname|A=An|English occupational|from=occupations}} for a cropper.As a verb crupper is
to fit with a crupper; to place a crupper upon.cropper
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- But to myself I thought: ‘Considering that for eight whole years I sat on the front bench as top of the class while he drifted about somewhere in the middle, he can hardly fail to nourish a wish, left over from his schooldays, that some day or other I may come a complete cropper.’
Etymology 2
a bird's cropEtymology 3
an agricultural cropNoun
(en noun)- That potato I grew last year was a good cropper .
crupper
English
(wikipedia crupper)Noun
(en noun)- Our knight did bear no less a pack / Of his own buttocks on his back: / Which now had almost got the upper- / Hand of his head, for want of crupper .
- he e?pied a mule's crupper , which hung to the ceiling of the room; this he took down, and tendering it to Don Quixote, went on, ?aying...
- Captain went out in the cab all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the cab. Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably as if he had been John Manly over again. When the crupper was let out a hole or two it all fitted well. There was no check-rein, no curb, nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!
- I sought among the mules one with a mild expression of generosity and gentleness in its eyes, and found it in a white mule with a crupper adorned with arabesques.