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Crop

Crop Meaning & Definition
Crop Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Crop?

[n] a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
[n] the stock or handle of a whip
[n] the yield from plants in a single growing season
[v] cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of"dress the plants in the garden"
[v] as of hair; "She wanted her hair cropped short"
[v] feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing"
[v] let (animals) feed in a field or pasture or meadow
[v] yield crops, of land; "This land crops well"
[v] prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Crop: browse | clip | craw | cultivate | cut back | cut short | dress | graze | harvest | lop | pasture | prune | range | snip | trim | work

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 | tummy | tum-tum | tussock | udder | underbelly | ventripotence | vintage | whip | whiplash | wipe out | wisp | yield

See Also | bear | breadbasket | cash crop | catch crop | cover crop | cut | disbud | drift | eat | feed | fruitage | gear up | give | grass | grip | handgrip | handle | hold | output | overcrop | overcultivate | pinch | poll | pollard | prepare | ready | root crop | set | set up | shear | stomach | thin out | top | tum | tummy | turn out | whip | yield

Crop In Webster's Dictionary

\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.]
\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\, 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.

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