ˈthroppled, ˈthrappled, a.
[f. thropple n. + -ed2.]
Having a thropple (of a specified kind). Chiefly used of horses.
| 1607 Markham Caval. iii. (1617) 15 Cock-throppled [see cock-throppled]. 1614 ― Cheap Husb. (1623) 47 A full eye, open nostrill wide jawed, loose thropled, deepe neckt. 1725 Bradley's Fam. Dict. s.v. Pursiness, When the Horse is Cock-thropled, for that his Throple or Wind-pipe being so long, he is not able to draw it [breath] in and out with so much Ease and Pleasure as other Horses do that are loose thropled. 1834 Cock-thrappled [see cock-throppled]. |