Cupper vs Crupper - What's the difference?
cupper | crupper |
(medicine, archaic) One who performs the operation of cupping.
(slang) A coffee aficionado.
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An intercollegiate sporting competition, open to all colleges.
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 cupper and crupper
is that cupper is one who performs the operation of cupping while crupper is a strap, looped under a horse's tail, used to stop a saddle from slipping.As a verb crupper is
to fit with a crupper; to place a crupper upon.cupper
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(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.