Crupper

Perched behind him on the crupper was a cheetah, a gilded collar around its neck, a chain of silver links running between it and the groom's hand. ❋ Chadwick, Elizabeth (2004)

All the arguments which I have heard adduced against the doctrine here laid down would also go to prove that a horse cannot fall which has a bearing-rein and a crupper, that is, whose head is tied to his tail. ❋ George Greenwood (1837)

His back is less straight, and there is a dip behind the withers and a rounding of the crupper which is more like the shape of the horse; his neck also is more erect and arched than that of the ass. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)

"Whose, then?" says I, genially, and laid a hand on his crupper. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His horse's armor matched Jermayan's exactly, from shanfron to crupper. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

Someone cannoned into us, and then as I pulled myself by main force across the crupper I felt a sudden shock, and Ilderim pitched over me and out of the saddle. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My feet hit the ground, but I had hold of his bridle, and for a few yards I was literally dragged along, with Ilderim above hauling to get me across the crupper. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's not a crupper (loop that anchors the back of the harness down that runs around and under the dock (root) of the tail). ❋ Cosmo7 (2009)

Each dragoon to furnish himself with a serviceable horse, at least fourteen hands and an half high, a good saddle, bridle, mail-pillion and valise, holster, and a best plate and crupper, a pair of boots and spurs; a pair of pistols, a sabre, and a cartouchbox to contain twelve cartridges for pistols. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Indians had copied saddles, stirrups, the crupper, and the lariat from the Spanish explorers, who, in turn had borrowed these innovations from the Moors Arabic people from North Africa, who had previously occupied Spain for 500 years. ❋ Everett M. Rogers (1995)

Then they sat him on an ass, face to crupper, arsi-versy, and making him take its tail in his hand, paraded him round about the city, ringing the bell before him in every street; after which they brought him back to the judges in sorriest plight; and the four Kazis with one voice condemned him to have his feet and hands cut off and lastly to be crucified. ❋ Unknown (2006)

“Ah, we Persians know a trick to get over that; we apply a sharpened tent peg to the crupper bone (os coccygis) and knock till he opens.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

They mounted her on crupper and the camel went his way, ❋ Unknown (2006)

So he came up and mounting her, face to crupper, caught hold of her tail and cried out; whereupon she threw him on the ground and they laughed at him; but he rose and said, ❋ Unknown (2006)

Boulonnais, which has too much head, too much belly, and not enough neck and shoulders, but which has a broad chest, a large crupper, thin, fine legs, and solid hoofs — a homely, but a robust and healthy race. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Now, when he met him, the man, who then seemed already extremely weary, had requested him to take him on his crupper; to which the fishmonger had made no reply except by redoubling his gait. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Her ears were very wide apart, her saddle deep, a fine head marked with a black star, a very long neck, strongly articulated knees, prominent ribs, oblique shoulders and a powerful crupper. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Trois Eschelles and Petit Andre were in an instant on foot, and Quentin observed that they had each, at the crupper and pommel of his saddle, a coil or two of ropes, which they hastily undid, and showed that, in fact, each coil formed a halter, with the fatal noose adjusted, ready for execution. ❋ Unknown (2008)

His saddle was red velvet, the bridle and crupper studded — with gilded knobs. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The seminists never discovered how it is that the ass communicates to his mule offspring a resemblance only in the ears and crupper; the ovists neither inform us, nor understand how a mare should contain in her egg anything but an animal of her own species. ❋ Unknown (2007)

"dude, i [picked up] this crupper at the head shop so i didn't have to carry my huge heavy [bong] [around the house]" ❋ Jay Moore (2006)