Obsolete. ‘A fall in which the neck is broken; a steep place endangering the neck’ (Johnson); figurative destruction, ruin.

A heavy fall to the ground. Obsolete. rare.

An act of hurling something, pitching, or tumbling head over heels; a heavy fall, esp. from a horse; (also) the capsizing of a boat. Cf. purler, n.

A heavy fall, a cropper. to come (also go) a mucker: to suffer a serious fall; (figurative) to come to grief, to ruin oneself. Cf. to come a cropper…

A heavy fall; usually in to come (fall, get) a cropper: often figurative.

? Horse Racing slang. A heavy fall; a ‘cropper’.

colloquial. A bad or damaging fall; a heavy blow.

A fall by which man and horse are doubled up.

figurative. Anything remarkable for exceptional violence, severity, strength, etc. slang. A heavy fall; usually in to come a smeller. Cf. stinker, n.…