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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Intercrop \In"ter*crop`\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {-cropped}; p. pr & vb n. {-cropping}.] (Agric.) To cultivate by planting simultaneous crops in alternate rows; as to intercrop an orchard. Also to use for catch crops at seasons when the ground is not covered by crops of the regular rotation. 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cropped adj 1: cut off as by clipping or biting off "trees with cropped tops"; "cropped hedges"; "her short cropped hair"; "the cropped grass where sheep had browsed" [ant: {uncropped}] 2: (of land or soil) used for growing crops; "cropped soil"
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