loperとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

loper (複数形 lopers)

1. 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.

2. (ropemaking) A swivel placed at one end of the ropewalk, with the whirl being at the opposite end.

関連する語

• interloper
• landloper

語源 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.

別の表記

• see list in loafer

名詞

loper (複数形 lopers)

1. (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.

使用する際の注意点

• Often used in compound with "wolf": "loper wolf".

Further reading

• Belford's Magazine, 1890, 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."

アナグラム

• lepro-, poler, prole