Came acrash a crupper
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- crupper: 1.) a strap used to stop a saddle from slipping; 2.) buttocks or rump, especially of a horse.
- a crash
- across
- definitely a fall, and from a horse, whether tangled in the saddle strap, falling across the horse's rump, or the rider crashing onto his own rump
