loper

From lope (“to leap, to run”) +‎ -er.

loper (plural 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 rope-walk, with the whirl being at the opposite end.

• interloper
• landloper

• lepro-, poler, prole

From Dutch loper (“walker, runner, messenger, bishop (chess piece), carpet, master key, offshoot”), from Middle Dutch lopere (“runner, messenger, walker”). Equivalent to loop +‎ -er.

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

• (chess piece): biskop
• (messenger): boodskapper
• (tendril): rank

From Middle Dutch lopere. Equivalent to lopen +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈloː.pər/

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• Hyphenation: lo‧per
• Rhymes: -oːpər

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

• uitloper

• Afrikaans: loper
• Indonesian: loper

From Dutch loper.

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

lopêr

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

• “loper” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.