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# crupper

«crupper» in Mova's school dictionary: **a strap on a horse's harness that runs under its tail to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (cruppers)

### meaning for a pupil

A crupper is a strap on a horse's harness that runs under its tail to stop the saddle sliding forward. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crupper/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a piece of horse gear in stories, named together with the breastplate of a war horse

### examples

- «Oh, my crupper and breastplate!» said the troop-horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crupper/#x1)
- Tighten the crupper before you ride. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crupper/#x2)
- The crupper rubbed the horse's tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crupper/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crupper» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crupper/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.