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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

cŕop

cŕop

See also: crop

Lower Sorbian

Noun

cŕop m ‎(diminutive cŕopk)

  1. Obsolete spelling of crjop

Declension

References

  • cŕop in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

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