Sentence examples for crupper from inspiring English sources

Ordinarily, the hatch is covered by a bronze version of a crupper strap, which runs from the saddle to a loop around the horse's tail.

The crupper strap in the Sherman Monument can be unscrewed and pulled aside to allow the hatch door to be lifted off.

From the tack room: kimblewick, snaffle, martingale, surcingle, crupper, twitch, stirrup, neatsfoot oil and crop.

Her hair was frizzled into a tangled chaparral, forward of her ears; aft it was drawn together and compactly bound and plaited into a stump like a pony's tail, and furthermore was canted upward at a sharp angle, and ingeniously supported by a red velvet crupper, whose forward extremity was made fast with a half-hitch around a hairpin on the top of her head.

The collar goes on before the belly band, britching, crupper and about a hundred other parts that have to be threaded through assorted buckles and rings.

We were swamped with information -- the details of horse care and the elaborate deployment of a mountain of trekking gear -- saddles, bridles, halters, lead ropes, girths, cruppers, rainwear, map holders and saddlebags.