α. 1500s–1700s cock-thropled, 1600s cocke-throppled, 1600s– cock-throppled.
β. 1800s– cock-thrappled.
cock-thrappledadj.
/ˈkɒkθrapld/, U.S. /ˈkɑkˌθræp(ə)ld/ Now rare.
Of a horse: having a neck which bows outward underneath, esp. when the horse bridles or draws in its chin. Also: designating such a neck. Cf. cock-throttled adj.
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1593 G. Markham Disc. Horsmanshippe iii. sig. G2v His thropell or wind-pipe, would bee big to a mans feeling, and straight to his eye, for if when he raineth, it haue a bent like a bow, which we cal Cock-thropled, it is very ill, and a signe of great straitnes of wind.
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iii. 14 The throppell..should when the horse reyneth be straight and euen, not bending like a bowe which is called cocke-throppled, and is the greatest signe of an ill winde.
c1721 W. Gibson True Method dieting Horses i. 13 All such Horses are said to be Cock-thropled.
1796 J. Lawrence Philos. & Pract. Treat. Horses I. i. 21 The defect usually arising from a cock-throppled neck.
1838 R. Southey Doctor V. 49 He was not..neck-reversed or cock-thrappled, ewe-necked, or deer-necked.
1883 Hull Packet & E. Riding Times 5 Oct. 3/4 He was troubled with a weasing as bad as a cock-throppled horse.
1958 H. H. Reese & G. B. Edwards Kellogg Arabians 88 Many of the early Arabs, as can be seen by old photographs, were distinctly ‘cock-thrappled’, and so were some of the first Kellogg horses.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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