Also -thrappled. [lit. ‘having the THROPPLE like that of a cock.’] Of a horse: Having the wind-pipe, when he bridles, curved like a bow.
1617. Markham, Caval., III. 15. The throppell … should when the horse reyneth be straight and euen, not bending like a bowe which is called cock-throppled, and is the greatest signe of an ill winde.
1720. W. Gibson, Diet Horses, i. (ed. 3), 13. All such Horses are said to be Cock-thropled.
1834–43. Southey, Doctor, cxliii. (D.). He was not … neck-reversed, or cock-thrappled, ewe-necked or deer-necked.
