crop

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: harvestcrawcultivateworkgrazepasturebrowserangesnipcliptrimlop

WordNet 3.0

Noun (6)

  1. the yield from plants in a single growing seasonSynonyms: harvest
  2. a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale
  3. a collection of people or things appearing together“the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas”
  4. the output of something in a season“the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores”
  5. the stock or handle of a whip
  6. a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of foodSynonyms: craw

Verb (6)

  1. cut short“She wanted her hair cropped short”
  2. prepare for crops“Work the soil”“cultivate the land”Synonyms: cultivatework
  3. yield crops“This land crops well”
  4. let feed in a field or pasture or meadowSynonyms: grazepasture
  5. feed as in a meadow or pasture“the herd was grazing”Synonyms: browsegrazerangepasture
  6. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of“dress the plants in the garden”Synonyms: snipcliptrimlopdressprunecut back
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Crop \Crop\, v. i. To yield harvest. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

2.The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree. [Obs.] "Crop and root." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop, Corn, wine, and oil.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

4.Grain or other product of the field while standing. [1913 Webster]

5.Anything cut off or gathered. [1913 Webster]

Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free, It falls a plenteous crop reserved for thee.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

6.Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop. [1913 Webster]

7.(Arch.) A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

8.(Mining.) (a) Tin ore prepared for smelting. (b) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface. --Knight. [1913 Webster]

9.A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash. [1913 Webster]

Neck and crop, altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.— Ezek. xvii. 22.[1913 Webster]

2.Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest. [1913 Webster]

Death . . . .crops the growing boys.— Creech.[1913 Webster]

3.To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field. [1913 Webster]

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. [PJC]

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