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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CROP, n. [G., L. The crop of a fowl, and a crop of grain or hay are consistently the same word.]
1. The first stomach of a fowl; the craw.
2. The top or highest part of a thing; the end. [Not in use.]
3. That which is gathered; the corn, or fruits of the earth collected; harvest. The word includes every species of fruit or produce, gathered for man or beast.
4. Corn and other cultivated plants while growing; a popular use of the word.
5. Any thing cut off or gathered.
6. Hair cut close or short.
CROP, v.t.
1. To cut off the ends of any thing; to eat off; to pull off; to pluck; to mow; to reap; as, to crop flowers, trees, or grass. Man crops trees or plants with an instrument, or with his fingers; a beast crops with his teeth.
2. To cut off prematurely; to gather before it falls.
While force our youth, like fruits, untimely crops.
CROP, v.i. To yield harvest. [Not in use.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the yield from plants in a single growing season [syn: crop, harvest]
2: a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale
3: a collection of people or things appearing together; "the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas"
4: the output of something in a season; "the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores"
5: the stock or handle of a whip
6: a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food [syn: craw, crop] v
1: cut short; "She wanted her hair cropped short"
2: prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land" [syn: cultivate, crop, work]
3: yield crops; "This land crops well"
4: let feed in a field or pasture or meadow [syn: crop, graze, pasture]
5: feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing" [syn: crop, browse, graze, range, pasture]
6: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, craw, head of a plant, yield of a field, from Old English cropp craw, head of a plant; akin to Old High German kropf goiter, craw Date: before 12th century 1. a pouched enlargement of the gullet of many birds that serves as a receptacle for food and for its preliminary maceration; also an enlargement of the gullet of another animal (as an insect) 2. a. (1) a plant or animal or plant or animal product that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence <an apple crop> <a crop of wool> (2) the total yearly production from a specified area b. the product or yield of something formed together <the ice crop> c. a batch or lot of something produced during a particular cycle <the current crop of films> d. collection <a crop of lies> 3. the stock or handle of a whip; also a riding whip with a short straight stock and a loop 4. [crop (II)] a. the part of the chine of a quadruped (as a domestic cow) lying immediately behind the withers — usually used in plural; see cow illustration b. an earmark on an animal; especially one made by a straight cut squarely removing the upper part of the ear c. a close cut of the hair II. verb (cropped; cropping) Date: 13th century transitive verb 1. a. to remove the upper or outer parts of <crop a hedge> <crop a dog's ears> b. harvest <crop trout> c. to cut off short ; trim <crop a photograph> 2. to cause (land) to bear a crop <planned to crop another 40 acres>; also to grow as a crop intransitive verb 1. to feed by cropping something 2. to yield or make a crop 3. to appear unexpectedly or casually <problems crop up daily>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a the produce of cultivated plants, esp. cereals. b the season's total yield of this (a good crop). 2 a group or an amount produced or appearing at one time (this year's crop of students). 3 (in full hunting crop) the stock or handle of a whip. 4 a a style of hair cut very short. b the cropping of hair. 5 Zool. a the pouch in a bird's gullet where food is prepared for digestion. b a similar organ in other animals. 6 the entire tanned hide of an animal. 7 a piece cut off or out of something. --v. (cropped, cropping) 1 tr. a cut off. b (of animals) bite off (the tops of plants). 2 tr. cut (hair, cloth, edges of a book, etc.) short. 3 tr. gather or reap (produce). 4 tr. (foll. by with) sow or plant (land) with a crop. 5 intr. (of land) bear a crop. Phrases and idioms: crop-dusting the sprinkling of powdered insecticide or fertilizer on crops, esp. from the air. crop-eared having the ears (esp. of animals) or hair cut short. crop-full having a full crop or stomach. crop out Geol. appear at the surface. crop-over a W. Indian celebration marking the end of the sugar-cane harvest. crop up 1 (of a subject, circumstance, etc.) appear or come to one's notice unexpectedly. 2 Geol. appear at the surface. Etymology: OE crop

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Crop Crop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cropped (kr?pt); 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. I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one. --Ezek. xvii. 22. 2. Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest. Death . . . .crops the growing boys. --Creech. 3. To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Crop 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. ``Cares crop up in villas.`` --Beaconsfield.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Crop Crop (kr?p), 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. 2. The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree. [Obs.] ``Crop and root.'' --Chaucer. 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. --Milton. 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. --Dryden. 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. --Knight. 9. A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash. Neck and crop, altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(crops, cropping, cropped) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Crops are plants such as wheat and potatoes that are grown in large quantities for food. Rice farmers here still plant and harvest their crops by hand... The main crop is wheat and this is grown even on the very steep slopes. N-COUNT see also cash crop 2. The plants or fruits that are collected at harvest time are referred to as a crop. Each year it produces a fine crop of fruit... The US government says that this year's corn crop should be about 8 percent more than last year... = harvest N-COUNT: usu with supp 3. You can refer to a group of people or things that have appeared together as a crop of people or things. (INFORMAL) The present crop of books and documentaries about Marilyn Monroe exploit the thirtieth anniversary of her death... = batch N-SING: N of n 4. When a plant crops, it produces fruits or parts which people want. Although these vegetables adapt well to our temperate climate, they tend to crop poorly. VERB: V 5. To crop someone's hair means to cut it short. She cropped her hair and dyed it blonde. VERB: V n • cropped She had cropped grey hair. ADJ 6. A crop is a short hairstyle. She had her long hair cut into a boyish crop. N-COUNT: usu sing 7. If you crop a photograph, you cut part of it off, in order to get rid of part of the picture or to be able to frame it. I decided to crop the picture just above the water line... Her husband was cropped from the photograph. VERB: V n, be V-ed from n 8. the cream of the crop: see cream

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

(1) As noun the translation of mur'-ah (Le 1:16), which is the craw of a bird, especially of doves and pigeons, which had to be removed by the priest before he offered the birds as a burnt sacrifice.

(2) As a verb it is (Eze 17:4,22) the translation of qaTaph, which has the meaning of "cutting off," "cutting down," "plucking."

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. 1. Harvest. 2. Craw, first stomach (of a bird). II. v. a. 1. Lop, clip, cut off. 2. Gather, pluck, pick. 3. Browse, nibble, feed upon.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A nick name for a presbyterian: from their cropping their hair, which they trimmed close to a bowl-dish, placed as a guide on their heads; whence they were likewise called roundheads. See ROUNDHEADS.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To be knocked down for a crop; to be condemned to be hanged. Cropped, hanged.

Moby Thesaurus

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