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You can make 38 words from loper according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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Definitions and meaning of loper

loper

Etymology 1

From lope (“to leap, to run”) +‎ -er.

Noun

loper (plural lopers)

1. One who or that which lopes; a runner; a leaper.
2. (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)

1. (Southwestern US dialects) A wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf.

Usage notes

• 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."

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

Noun

loper (plural lopers, diminutive lopertjie)

1. (chess) bishop; chess piece that moves diagonally
2. walker; someone who walks
3. (archaic) runner; someone who runs or moves quickly
4. (historical) messenger, that delivers messages by foot
5. (botany) shoot or sprout that forms at the end of roots from which new shoots or sprouts develop
6. (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.

In the chess sense, likely a semantic loan from German Läufer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈloː.pər/
• Hyphenation: lo‧per
• Rhymes: -oːpər

Noun

loper m (plural lopers, diminutive lopertje n)

1. runner

   Synonyms: hardloper, renner

2. somebody who walks
3. a carpet

   rode loper — red carpet

4. (chess) bishop.

   Synonym: raadsheer

5. master key

   Synonym: moedersleutel

6. message runner, messager who runs on foot
7. (archaic) shoot from the roots of a plant

   Synonym: uitloper

Derived terms

• brandingloper
• steenloper
• strandloper
• uitloper

Descendants

• Afrikaans: loper
• Indonesian: loper
• Petjo: loper

See also

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch loper, from Middle Dutch lopere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo.pər/
• Hyphenation: lo‧pêr

Noun

lopêr

1. (colloquial) deliveryman, that delivers newspaper, and so on.
2. (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

See also

Further reading

• “loper” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.