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Webster 1913 Edition

Crop

Crop

(krŏp)
,
Noun.
[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

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Cropped
(krŏpt)
;
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

,
Verb.
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; to appear suddenly.
“Cares crop up in villas.”
Beaconsfield.

Webster 1828 Edition

Crop

CROP

,
Noun.
[G., L. The crop of a fowl, and a crop of grain or hay are consistently the same word.]
1.
The first stomach of a fowl; the craw.
2.
The top or highest part of a thing; the end. [Not in use.]
3.
That which is gathered; the corn, or fruits of the earth collected; harvest. The word includes every species of fruit or produce, gathered for man or beast.
4.
Corn and other cultivated plants while growing; a popular use of the word.
5.
Any thing cut off or gathered.
6.
Hair cut close or short.

CROP

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To cut off the ends of any thing; to eat off; to pull off; to pluck; to mow; to reap; as, to crop flowers, trees, or grass. Man crops trees or plants with an instrument, or with his fingers; a beast crops with his teeth.
2.
To cut off prematurely; to gather before it falls.
While force our youth, like fruits, untimely crops.

CROP

,
Verb.
I.
To yield harvest. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024

crop

crop

See also: cŕop

English

Noun

crop ‎(plural crops)

  1. (agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
  2. The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
  3. A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
    a crop of ideas
  4. The lashing end of a whip
  5. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
  6. A rocky outcrop.
  7. The act of cropping.
  8. A short haircut.
  9. (anatomy) 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 craw.
    • XIX c., George MacDonald, The Early Bird:
      A little bird sat on the edge of her nest;
      Her yellow-beaks slept as sound as tops;
      Day-long she had worked almost without rest,
      And had filled every one of their gibbous crops;
    • 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", 2005 Norton edition, page 221:
      The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop.
    • 2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)
      As the wildebeest shrinks, the circle of sated birds lounging in the short grass expands. With bulging crops, the vultures settle their heads atop folded wings and slide their nictitating membranes shut.
  10. (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
  11. (archaic or dialect) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
  12. (mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
  13. (mining) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
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Etymology 2

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

crop ‎(third-person singular simple present crops, present participle cropping, simple past and past participle cropped)

  1. (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
    • Bible, Ezekiel xvii. 22
      I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.
  2. (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
  3. (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or image in order to frame the subject better.
  4. (intransitive) To yield harvest.
  5. (transitive) To cause to bear a crop.
    to crop a field
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Etymology

From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English crop, 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-Germanic *kruppaz ‎(“body, trunk, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- ‎(“to warp, bend, crawl”). Cognate with Dutch krop ‎(“crop”), Low German Krop ‎(“a swelling on the neck, the craw, maw”), German Kropf ‎(“the craw, ear of grain, head of lettuce or cabbage”), Swedish kropp ‎(“body, trunk”), Icelandic kroppur ‎(“a hunch on the body”). Related to crap and group.

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