loper

plural lopers

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

   Wolves are very intelligent animals, and they are lopers and they are survivors.

   2000, Marilyn Elkins, August Wilson: A Casebook

2. artsA swivel placed at one end of the ropewalk, with the whirl being at the opposite end.

plural lopers

1. SouthwesternUSdialectalA wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf.

   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.

   1936, James Shannon Buchanan, Chronicles of Oklahoma

   1 more example

   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.

   1905 April 22, C. Blanco, “Flanking a Wolf”, in Forest and Stream, page 314

plural Lopers

1. A surname.