loper
See also: löper
English
Etymology 1
From lope (“to leap, to run”) + -er.
Noun
loper (plural lopers)
- One who or that which lopes; a runner; a leaper.
- 2000, Marilyn Elkins, August Wilson: A Casebook:
- Wolves are very intelligent animals, and they are lopers and they are survivors.
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- (ropemaking) A swivel placed at one end of the ropewalk, with the whirl being at the opposite end.
Related terms
- interloper
- landloper
Etymology 2
From American Spanish lobo (“wolf”) (/ˈloβo/), reinterpreted as or conflated with loper (“one who lopes”); compare the alternative forms which reflect other re-interpretations and conflations.
Alternative forms
- see list in loafer
Noun
loper (plural lopers)
- (Southwestern US dialects) A wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf.
- 1905 April 22, C. Blanco, "Flanking a Wolf", in Forest and Stream, page 314:
- When I was still some distance above the ford, about a dozen prairie wolves and one loper* wolf ran up from the water. They told me that there were no Indians near here or they would not be here; and they were not here long, either. [...] the big loper left on a slow gallop [...]
- *Loper, corruption of Sp. lobo, wolf.
- 1936, James Shannon Buchanan, Chronicles of Oklahoma
- Besides the cattle company paid a bounty for each coyote, loper wolf, panther, bobcat or bear. We had to buy our own six-shooter but the company furnished ammunition free. So it can be seen why most cowboys were pretty good shots.
- 1905 April 22, C. Blanco, "Flanking a Wolf", in Forest and Stream, page 314:
Usage notes
- Often used in compound with "wolf": "loper wolf".
Further reading
- 1890, Belford's Magazine, page 713:
- It is the great gray wolf; called the "loper" wolf in Texas, not because of his gait, but because his Spanish name is "lobo," and has been slightly changed by certain frontier Americans […]
- 1905, Jerome Constant Smiley, National Live Stock Association of the United States, Prose and Poetry of the Live Stock Industry of the United States: With Outlines of the Origin and Ancient History of Our Live Stock Animals, page 719:
- […] was the greatest pest of the country[,] the great gray wolf, otherwise known as the "timber wolf," the "buffalo wolf," the "loper wolf," the "loafer wolf," and the "lobo wolf."
Anagrams
- lepro-, poler, prole
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch loper (“walker, runner, messenger, bishop (chess piece), carpet, master key, offshoot”), from Middle Dutch lopere (“runner, messenger, walker”). Equivalent to loop + -er.
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
loper (plural lopers, diminutive lopertjie)
- (chess) bishop; chess piece that moves diagonally
- walker; someone who walks
- (archaic) runner; someone who runs or moves quickly
- (historical) messenger, that delivers messages by foot
- (botany) shoot or sprout that forms at the end of roots from which new shoots or sprouts develop
- (botany, uncommon) tendrils of creepers and vines used for support
Synonyms
- (chess piece): biskop
- (messenger): boodskapper
- (tendril): rank
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch lopere. Equivalent to lopen + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈloː.pər/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: lo‧per
- Rhymes: -oːpər
Noun
loper m (plural lopers, diminutive lopertje n)
- runner
- Synonyms: hardloper, renner
- somebody who walks
- a carpet
- rode loper — red carpet
- (chess) bishop.
- Synonym: raadsheer
- master key
- Synonym: moedersleutel
- message runner, messager who runs on foot
- (archaic) shoot from the roots of a plant
- Synonym: uitloper
Derived terms
- uitloper
Descendants
- Afrikaans: loper
- Indonesian: loper
- Petjo: loper
See also
| Chess pieces in Dutch · schaakstukken (schaak + stukken) (layout · text) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |  |  |  |  |  |
| koning | koningin, dame | toren | loper | paard | pion |
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch loper, from Middle Dutch lopere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lo.pər/
- Hyphenation: lo‧pêr
Noun
lopêr
- (colloquial) deliveryman, that delivers newspaper, and so on.
- (chess) bishop: the chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
- Synonyms: menteri, gajah, luncup
Related terms
- pelopor
See also
| Chess pieces in Indonesian · buah catur (see also: catur) (layout · text) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | | | | |
| raja | menteri, patih, ratu, ster | benteng | gajah, loper, menteri, luncung, luncur, peluncur | kuda | bidak, pion, prajurit |
Further reading
- “loper” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.