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crop¹

  • /kɹɒp/ Canada, Northern England, UK
  • /kɹɔp/ Australia, British, Southern, Standard
  • /kɹɑp/ US
  • /kɹɒp/ New Zealand
  • [kɹɔ̟p] ~ [kɹɞ̠p] New Zealand
  • /kɾɔp/ Scotland
  • /kɾɒp/ Wales

Rhymes with -ɒp

Where it comes from

From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), from Proto-West Germanic *kropp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, trunk, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to warp, bend, crawl”). Doublet of group.

Cognates

Cognate with Dutch krop (“crop”), German Low German Kropp (“a swelling on the neck, the craw, maw”), German Kropf (“the craw, ear of grain, head of lettuce or cabbage”), Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish kropp (“body, trunk”), Faroese and Icelandic kroppur (“body”). Related to crap. Doublet of group and croup.

noun crops

  1. A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose. The farmer had to decide which crop to grow as his main bet for the coming year. Would it be barley, oats, or something else?
  2. The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants. It was a good crop of oats this year. What a nice change after last year's crop!
  3. figuratively A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time. The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel.
  4. A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease. The patient had a crop of bumps indicative of chicken pox.
  5. The lashing end of a whip.
  6. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.
  7. A rocky outcrop.
  8. The act of cropping.
  9. A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts. This indicates to the engraver that the subject may be cropped to yield the size desired, but it is advisable that the position for the crop also be determined and marked, else some essential feature of the copy may be cut off by arbitrary cropping to get the required size.
  10. A short haircut. She went from a ponytail to a crop.
  11. A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation. A little bird sat on the edge of her nest; Her yellow-beaks slept as sound as tops; That day she had done her very best, And had filled every one of their little crops.
  12. The foliate part of a finial.
  13. archaic, dialectal The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
  14. Tin ore prepared for smelting.
  15. An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
  16. An entire oxhide.
  17. in plural, slang Marijuana. Cops, come and try to snatch my crops / These pigs wanna blow my house down

crop²

  • /kɹɒp/ Canada, Northern England, UK
  • /kɹɔp/ Australia, British, Southern, Standard
  • /kɹɑp/ US
  • /kɹɒp/ New Zealand
  • [kɹɔ̟p] ~ [kɹɞ̠p] New Zealand
  • /kɾɔp/ Scotland
  • /kɾɒp/ Wales

Rhymes with -ɒp

Where it comes from

From Middle English croppen (“to cut, pluck and eat”), from Old English *croppian. Cognate with Scots crap (“to crop”), Dutch kroppen (“to cram, digest”), Low German kröppen (“to cut, crop, stuff the craw”), German kröpfen (“to crop”), Icelandic kroppa (“to cut, crop, pick”). Literally, to take off the crop (top, head, ear) of a plant. See Etymology 1.

verb crops · cropping · cropped

  1. transitive To remove the top end of something, especially a plant. I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.
  2. transitive To mow, reap or gather.
  3. transitive To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short. And the knave who refuses to drink till he fall, / Why the hangman shall crop him — ears, love-locks, and all.
  4. transitive To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better. Reduce to six inches wide and crop to eight inches high.
  5. intransitive To yield harvest.
  6. transitive To cause to bear a crop. to crop a field
  7. transitive To beat with a crop, or riding-whip. She cropped the horse into a comfortable canter and enjoyed the familiar rhythm and bounce of the horse's stride.

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