Crop

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crop \Crop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cropped} (kr[o^]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.
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              I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a
              tender one.                           --Ezek. xvii.
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     2. Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.
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              Death . . . .crops the growing boys. --Creech.
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     3. To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.
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     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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crop \Crop\ (kr[o^]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.
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     2. The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a
        plant or tree. [Obs.] "Crop and root." --Chaucer.
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     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.
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              Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop,
              Corn, wine, and oil.                  --Milton.
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     4. Grain or other product of the field while standing.
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     5. Anything cut off or gathered.
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              Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free,
              It falls a plenteous crop reserved for thee.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     6. Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so
        cutting; as, a convict's crop.
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     7. (Arch.) A projecting ornament in carved stone.
        Specifically, a finial. [Obs.]
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     8. (Mining.)
        (a) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
        (b) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface. --Knight.
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     9. A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.
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     {Neck and crop}, altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crop \Crop\, v. i.
     To yield harvest.
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     {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." --Beaconsfield.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crop
       n 1: the yield from plants in a single growing season [syn: {harvest}]
       2: a collection of people or things appearing together; "the
          annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas"
       3: the output of something in a season; "the latest crop of
          fashions is about to hit the stores"
       4: the stock or handle of a whip
       5: a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles
          a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
          [syn: {craw}]
       v 1: cut short; "She wanted her hair cropped short"
       2: prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land"
          [syn: {cultivate}, {work}]
       3: yield crops; "This land crops well"
       4: let 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: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the
          plants in the garden" [syn: {snip}, {clip}, {trim}, {lop},
           {dress}, {prune}, {cut back}]
       [also: {cropping}, {cropped}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  257 Moby Thesaurus words for "crop":
     abbreviate, abdomen, abomasum, abridge, abscind, abstract,
     aftermath, amputate, annihilate, bag, ban, bar, batch, batten upon,
     bay window, bearing, beerbelly, belly, belt, blacksnake, bob,
     boil down, boobs, bosom, breadbasket, breast, breasts, bring in,
     brisket, browse, bullwhack, bullwhip, bumper crop, bunch, bust,
     capsulize, cat, chest, chop, clip, clump, cluster, compress,
     condense, contract, copse, cowhide, craw, crop herbs, cull,
     curtail, cut, cut away, cut back, cut down, cut off, cut off short,
     cut out, cut short, cutting, detach, diaphragm, dig, disengage,
     dock, dryfarm, dug, elide, eliminate, embonpoint, enucleate,
     epitomize, eradicate, except, excise, exclude, extinguish,
     extirpate, farm, fatten on, fatten upon, feast on, feast upon,
     feed on, first stomach, flagellum, fleece, foreshorten, fruit,
     garden, gather, gather in, gathering, gizzard, glean, gleaning,
     grabble, graze, group, grouping, groupment, grove, grow, growth,
     gullet, gut, harvest, harvesting, hassock, hay, head, head of hair,
     hew, honeycomb stomach, horsewhip, isolate, kishkes, knock off,
     knockers, knot, knout, kurbash, lash, live on, locks, lop, lot,
     make, mama, mamelon, mamelonation, mammary gland, mammilla,
     mammillation, mane, manyplies, mat, maw, mess, midriff, mop, mow,
     mutilate, nenes, net, nip, nipple, nut, nutting, omasum, output,
     pap, papilla, pare, pasture on, paunch, peel, pick, pick out,
     pigeon breast, plantation, planting, pluck, poll, pollard, pot,
     potbelly, potgut, prey on, proceeds, produce, product, production,
     prune, psalterium, pusgut, quirt, raise, ranch, rawhide,
     razor strap, reap, reap and carry, reaping, rear, recap,
     recapitulate, reduce, rennet bag, reticulum, retrench, root out,
     rule out, rumen, scourge, second crop, second stomach, set apart,
     set aside, shag, sharecrop, shave, shear, shock, shorten, sjambok,
     skive, slash, slew, snip, snub, spare tire, stamp out, stand,
     stomach, stook, strap, strike off, strip, strip off, stunt, sum up,
     summarize, swagbelly, synopsize, take in, take off, take out, teat,
     telescope, thatch, thicket, third stomach, thong, thorax,
     throughput, tit, tits, titties, titty, top, tresses, trim,
     truncate, tuft, tum-tum, tummy, tussock, udder, underbelly,
     ventripotence, vintage, whip, whiplash, wipe out, wisp, yield
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CROP. This word is nearly synonymous with emblements. (q.v.),
       2. As between the landlord and tenant, the former has a lien; in some 
  of the states, upon the crop for the rent, for a limited time, and, if sold 
  on an execution against the tenant, the purchaser succeeds to the liability 
  of the tenant, for rent and good husbandry, and the crop is still liable to 
  be distrained. Tenn. St. 1825, c. 21; Misso. St. 377; Del. St. 1829, 366; 1 
  N. J. R. C. 187; Atk. Dig. 357; 1 N. Y. R. S. 746; 1 Ky. R. L. 639; 5 Watts, 
  R. 134; 41 Griff. Reg. 671, 404; 1 Hill. Ab. 148, 9; 5 Penn. St. R. 211. 
       3. A crop is not considered is a part of the real estate, so as to make 
  a sale of it void, when the contract has not been reduced to writing, within 
  the statute of frauds. 11 East, 362; 2 M. & S. 205; 5 B. & C. 829; 10 Ad. & 
  El. 753; 9 B. & C. 561; but see 9 M. & W. 501. 
       4. If a husband sow land and die, and the land which was sown is 
  assigned to the wife for her dower, she shall have the corn, and not the 
  executors of the husband. Inst. 81.