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Definition of Clopping
1. Noun. The sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface.
Definition of Clopping
1. Verb. (present participle of clop) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clopping
1. clop [v] - See also: clop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clopping
Literary usage of Clopping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall by Margaret Ann Courtney, Thomas Quiller Couch (1880)
"clopping, limping. " Clop and go one.'' '' Mother was clopping." Close, reserved.
" She's a close woman. ..."
2. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (1920)
"They lurched to the highroad and awoke from their sun- soaked drowse at the sound
of the clopping hoofs. They paused to look for partridges in a rim of ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"clopping, limping. " Clop and go one.'' '' Mother was clapping." Close, reserved.
" She's a dose woman. ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Uncle Dick, the Gunner, my grandfather's boy, will go." " Thic clopping J toad !
" said Temper. " He'd make a fine coose of et, sure 'nuff. ..."
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