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.
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.
Crop (kr&obreve;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.]
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