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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: crop n 1: the yield from plants in a single growing season [syn: {harvest}] 2: the stock or handle of a whip 3: a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food [syn: {craw}] v 1: as of hair; "She wanted her hair cropped short" [syn: {cut short}] 2: prepare for crops, of soil [syn: {cultivate}, {work}] 3: yield crops, of land: "This land crops well" 4: let (animals) feed in a field or pasture or meadow [syn: {graze}, {pasture}] 5: feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing" [syn: {browse}, {graze}, {range}, {pasture}] 6: cut back the growth of of bushes and trees [syn: {snip}, {clip}, {trim}, {lop}, {dress}, {prune}, {cut back}]
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