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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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"Crop" Quotes from Famous Books



... 193 he declares: "All food prices in England have increased on the average 80% in price, they are for example considerably higher in England than in Germany. A world wide crop failure in Canada and Argentine made the importation of food ...
— Germany, The Next Republic? • Carl W. Ackerman
... the merchant said, "you have indeed transformed him. He is not a bad-looking varlet, now that he has got rid of that tangled crop of hair." ...
— Saint Bartholomew's Eve - A Tale of the Huguenot WarS • G. A. Henty
... coconuts are the sole cash crop. Copra and fresh coconuts are the major export earners. Small local gardens and fishing contribute to the food supply, but additional food and most other necessities must be imported ...
— The 1999 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... or fifteen. Vegetation also existed here to a certain extent. Not far from the shore, I noticed, in a little ravine, a group of eight acicular-leaved trees. On this plain there were also some wild shrubs bearing capers, and a description of tall shrub, not unlike our bramble, bearing a plentiful crop of red berries, very juicy and sweet. We all ate largely of them; and I was the more surprised at finding these plants here, as I had found it uniformly stated that animal and vegetable life was wholly extinct on the shores of ...
— A Visit to the Holy Land • Ida Pfeiffer
... and still have very wrong theories about him; just as a farmer may raise a good crop without understanding much about theories of sunshine or of soil. But the man who does understand about them will be more likely to raise a good crop, because he goes about it intelligently; while the other simply blunders into it. So, if we have right thoughts ...
— Our Unitarian Gospel • Minot Savage


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