loper

American  

[loh-per] / ˈloʊ pər /

noun

1. a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.

2. Also called draw runner.  Also called draw slip.  Furniture. either of two runners coming forward to support a hinged leaf, as the slant front of a desk.

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Etymology

Origin of loper

First recorded in 1475–85; lope + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Wisconsin's Senator William Proxmire was once a lone loper on his way to the Capitol.

From Time Magazine Archive

Is it not Derrick Molleston's loper thee has—the same that he gets from Devil Jim Clark?

From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by Townsend, George Alfred

E. loper, curdled, prob. conn. with A.S. hl�apan, to leap, run.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Is there any connection between loper and leaper, doctor?” continued Sir James.

From Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain blacks and whites by Wood, Stanley L.