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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Crop \Crop\, verb (used without an object) 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Crop \Crop\ (kr[o^]p), 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.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Crop \Crop\, verb (used with an object) [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.
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.
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]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
crop
noun
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}]
verb
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
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