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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Intercrop \In"ter*crop'\, verb (used with an object) & i. [imp. & p. p. {-cropped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {-cropping}.] (Agric.) To cultivate by planting simultaneous crops in alternate rows; as, to intercrop an orchard. Also, to use for catch crops at seasons when the ground is not covered by crops of the regular rotation. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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]:
cropping See {crop}
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}]
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