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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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(Nek-,) Neck-stropiat, ppl. a. [16th c. F. estropiat, Ital. stroppiato, maimed (person), also 16th c. F. estropier v. to maim.] Appar., broken-necked; applied to spurs, ‘perhaps the angular-necked spur of the first half of the seventeenth century, in which the neck does not curve downwards but is bent in the middle at a right angle’ (C. R. Beard). — 1632 Lithgow Trav. ix. 395.
The French man hangeth in the stirrop … pricking his horse with neck-stropiat spurres