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Crop   /krɑp/   Listen
noun
Crop  n.  
1.
The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.
2.
The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree. (Obs.) "Crop and root."
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. "Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop, Corn, wine, and oil."
4.
Grain or other product of the field while standing.
5.
Anything cut off or gathered. "Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free, It falls a plenteous crop reserved for thee."
6.
Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.
7.
(Arch.) A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial. (Obs.)
8.
(Mining.)
(a)
Tin ore prepared for smelting.
(b)
Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
9.
A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.
Neck and crop, altogether; roughly and at once. (Colloq.)


verb
Crop  v. t.  (past & past part. cropped; pres. part. cropping)  
1.
To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap. "I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one."
2.
Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest. "Death...crops the growing boys."
3.
To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.
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.


Crop  v. i.  To yield harvest.
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."





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... "Partial failures of this crop had taken place for a succession of seasons. So regularly did those failures occur, that William Cobbett and other skilful agriculturists had foretold their final destruction years before. Still, the crops of the summer of 1846 looked fair and sound to the eye. The ...
— Irish Race in the Past and the Present • Aug. J. Thebaud
... carelessness about money always shocked her—and offered to take charge of it till Chrystie came back. There had to be another crop of lies, and Chrystie's face was beaded with perspiration, her voice shaking, as she bent over her trunk. She'd lock it in her desk, it would be all right—and please go away and don't bother—the expressman might ...
— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner
... said, is the only opera produced in Germany at this period which is deserving of special mention. Mozart's success had raised up a crop of imitators, of whom the most meritorious were Suessmayer, his own pupil; Winter, who had the audacity to write a sequel to 'Die Zauberfloete'; Weigl, the composer of the popular 'Schweizerfamilie' the Abbe Vogler, who, though now known chiefly by his ...
— The Opera - A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions - of all Works in the Modern Repertory • R.A. Streatfeild
... in electrically produced atmosphere which was so thick that you couldn't hear yourself speak. Death would be instantaneous. It couldn't have been our unknown professor's wireless experiments after all. Yet it seems impossible that a sudden new power should crop up suddenly at one spot like this. Imagine what would happen if this had occurred in a city, in a crowded street. Hundreds would have been stricken blind, then hundreds would have been suffocated. Vehicles would have run amok, and the result would have been an indescribable chaos of ...
— The Mystery of the Green Ray • William Le Queux
... the song still in the air, the singer came through the shadow of the porch and stood in the doorway—a man tall and well set-up, in black riding-clothes, cap in hand, who saluted the two with his crop, and as he did so a jewel gleamed in the handle, showing him to ...
— Katrine • Elinor Macartney Lane


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