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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



... were ready to accept John the Baptist as being Elias in a new form. Perhaps these rather fragmentary ideas of the Jews are traceable to Egyptian and ultimately to Indian teaching about transmigration. That belief is said to crop up occasionally in rabbinical writings but was given no place ...
— Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Charles Eliot
... Heaven! and for the fruition of an hour's drunkenness, from which they must awaken with heaviness, pain, and terror, men consume a whole crop of their kind at one harvest home. Shame upon those light ones who carol at the feast of blood! and worse upon those graver ones who nail upon their escutcheon the name of great! Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes ...
— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor
... whilst Mr. Primrose seeks to repair his fortune in the Indies; and Robert Darnley, Penelope's suitor, also for sometime in the Indies, who is thwarted in his views by Lord Spoonbill, and a creature named colonel Crop, &c. ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, - Volume 12, No. 329, Saturday, August 30, 1828 • Various
... amount of care is given, the chief requirements being water when the weather is dry, thinning-out where they come up very close together, and keeping thoroughly clear of weeds—mere matters of detail, which require but little time to carry out, and which will ensure a very good crop of ...
— Little Folks - A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) • Various
... is time he should be told that there is a large body, both of thinkers and practical men, who hold precisely the same opinion of his own teaching—with this difference, that they do not regard it as the inspiration of Satan, but as the natural crop of a human mind where the soil is chiefly made up of egoistic ...
— The Essays of "George Eliot" - Complete • George Eliot


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