a. [f. THROPPLE sb. + -ED2.] Having a thropple (of a specified kind). Chiefly used of horses.
1607. Markham, Caval., III. (1617), 15. Cock-throppled [see COCK-THROPPLED]. Ibid. (1614), Cheap Husb. (1623), 47. A full eye, open nostrill, wide jawed, loose thropled, deepe neckt.
1725. Bradleys 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].