| Crop | n. [ OE. crop, croppe, craw, top of a plant, harvest, AS. crop, cropp, craw, top, bunch, ear of corn; akin to D. krop craw, G. kropf, Icel. kroppr hump or bunch on the body, body; but cf. also W. cropa, croppa, crop or craw of a bird, Ir. & Gael. sgroban. Cf. Croup, Crupper, Croup. ] 1. The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree. [ Obs. ] “Crop and root.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest. [ 1913 Webster ] Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop,
Corn, wine, and oil. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. Grain or other product of the field while standing. [ 1913 Webster ] 5. Anything cut off or gathered. [ 1913 Webster ] Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free,
It falls a plenteous crop reserved for thee. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ] 6. Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop. [ 1913 Webster ] 7. (Arch.) A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 8. (Mining.) (a) Tin ore prepared for smelting. (b) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ] 9. A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash. [ 1913 Webster ]
Neck and crop, altogether; roughly and at once. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Crop | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cropped p. pr. & vb. n. Cropping. ] 1. To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap. [ 1913 Webster ] I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one. Ezek. xvii. 22. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest. [ 1913 Webster ] Death . . . .crops the growing boys. Creech. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. to cut off an unnecessary portion at the edges; -- of photographs and other two-dimensional images; as, to crop her photograph up to the shoulders. [ PJC ] |
| Crop | v. i. To yield harvest. [ 1913 Webster ]
To crop out. (a) (Geol.) To appear above the surface, as a seam or vein, or inclined bed, as of coal. (b) To come to light; to be manifest; to appear; as, the peculiarities of an author crop out. --
To crop up, to sprout; to spring up; to appear suddenly. “Cares crop up in villas.” Beaconsfield. [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Cropper | n. 1. One that crops. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. (Mech.) A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse. [ Slang. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
