croppern.¹

Brit.

/ˈkrɒpə/, U.S.

/ˈkrɑpər/

Etymology: < crop n. + -er suffix¹.

A breed of pigeons having the power of greatly distending or puffing up their crops; a pouter.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > domestic pigeon > [noun] > pouter

cropper1655

pouter1725

uploper1735

pouter pigeon1793

Isabel1867

1655 I. Walton Compl. Angler (ed. 2) 101 There be Cropers, Carryers, Runts.

1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. ii. i. xv. 181 Pigeons... Croppers, so called because they can, and usually do, by attracting the Air, blow up their Crops to that strange bigness that they exceed the bulk of the whole body beside.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 293 Pigeon fanciers..can breed them..to a feather..Croppers, Carriers, Jacobines, [etc.].

1850 E. S. Dixon in Tegetmeier Pigeons (1867) v. 54 Pouters..Provincially they are called Croppers.

1891 Daily News 7 Jan. 3/4 Those Norwich croppers are not half so puffed up as they seem.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

croppern.²

Etymology: < crop n. or crop v. + -er suffix¹.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcropper.

1. One who or that which crops. spec. a shearing machine in iron and steel work; also, the workman who operates it.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > cutting equipment > machines

slitting-mill?1677

slit-mill1776

shear1845

nail cutter1851

plate shears1861

bar-cutter1874

paper cutter1880

guillotine1881

croppera1884

guillotine shears1884

nibbler1939

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > worker involved in shearing metal

bar-cutter1874

shearer?1881

shearman?1881

cropper1921

1483 Cath. Angl. 84 A Cropper, decimator.

1881 Sat. Rev. No. 1319. 182 One can imagine Cicero..imploring the binder to leave the rough edges, and imploring in vain..But..binders were often slaves, and an angry amateur would throw the cropper to feed the lampreys.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 231/2 Cropper, a powerful hand machine for shearing off bolts or rod iron.

1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §279 Cropper (iron and steel rolling); forge cropper, mill cropper and shearer; a shearer or a hot sawyer who cuts off badly shaped ends of finished bars of iron or steel after rolling.

1937 Times 13 Apr. p. xxxviii/1 Portable hand-lamps, bolt croppers, insulated pliers.

2. A workman who shears the nap of cloth; a cloth-shearer; also, a machine for doing this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > shearing > one who

shearmanc1275

shearer1473

cloth-shearer?c1530

cropper1711

1711 R. Thoresby Diary (1830) II. 89 A fund for the aged and poor croppers at 2d or 4d per cloth.

1888 F. Peel Risings of Luddites 42 The discontented croppers of Liversedge.

3. One who raises a crop, or successive crops.Locally in U.S. and elsewhere used more or less specifically: see quots.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > [noun] > one who

planter1281

cropper1580

growera1687

raiser1707

vegetist1775

1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 21^v Though breadcorne & drinkcorn, such croppers do stand: count peason or brank, as a comfort to land.

1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 19 What croppers bee, here learne to see.

1850 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 11 ii. 727 The land is occupied by tenants called Croppers, who pay rents amounting to 5l. or 6l. per acre, which they are enabled to pay by never letting the land lie idle, and growing crops of vegetables in rapid succession, which they carry to the Bristol market.

1886 Q. Rev. Oct. 109 A cropper hires for two years, at a low rent from a squatter, a bit of waste land, undertaking to clear it and grow wheat upon it. After this it is ready for English grass. To succeed, a cropper must work hard with his own hands.

1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms Cropper, a farmer on commission, the consideration being..calculated by the proprietor on the basis of the crop produced.

4. A plant which yields a crop. (Usually with qualification.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > food plant or vegetable > [noun] > crop-plant

cropper1845

crop-plant1906

1845 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 6 ii. 352 The best croppers for feeding cattle.

1882 Garden 14 Jan. 19/3 Apples and Pears..having the stamp of excellent croppers.

Compounds

cropper-worker n. One who works a cropping-machine (for cloth).

ΚΠ

1891 Labour Commission Gloss.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

croppern.³

Etymology: perhaps < phrase neck and crop.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcropper.

colloquial.

A heavy fall; usually in to come (fall, get) a cropper: often figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > come to grief

misfareOE

miswendOE

misferec1275

misspeeda1387

miscarryc1387

mischieve?a1400

to catch copper1530

to lose one's seatc1540

mischief1598

to bu(r)st one's boiler1824

to come to grief1850

to come (also go) a mucker1851

to come (fall, get) a cropper1858

mucker1862

to go or be up the flume1865

to come undone1899

to play smash1903

to come to a sticky end1904

to come unstuck1911

society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > fall off

wendc1300

flit1430

unhorse1583

to be floored1826

to come (fall, get) a cropper1858

to come (also have) a buster1874

to come off1874

volunteer1890

to take a toss1917

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [noun] > falling down or from erect position (animates) > severe fall

breakneck1563

plumper1810

purl1825

mucker1851

cropper1858

burster1863

smasher1875

crumpler1883

smeller1923

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > fall [verb (intransitive)] > fall down or from erect position > specifically of person or animal

to light lowc1225

wendc1300

to seek to the earth or groundc1330

tumblea1375

stretchc1400

to take a fall1413

to blush to the eartha1500

to come down1603

to go to grassa1640

to be floored1826

to take a spilla1845

to come (fall, get) a cropper1858

to hunt grass1872

to come (also have) a buster1874

to hit the deck1954

1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma liii. 244 [He] rode at an impracticable fence, and got a cropper for his pains.

1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 133 Cropper, ‘to go a cropper’, or ‘to come a cropper’, i.e., to fail badly.

1875 A. Trollope Way we live Now I. xxxviii. 241 He would ‘be coming a cropper rather,’ were he to marry Melmotte's daughter for her money, and then find that she had got none.

1877 H. A. Leveson Sport Many Lands 464 My horse put his foot in a hole and came down a cropper.

1951 T. Rattigan Who is Sylvia? i. 230 We bachelors welcome competition from married men. We so much enjoy watching them come the inevitable cropper.

1963 Times 30 Jan. 1/7 I came a proper cropper, dearie, all black and blue I was.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2020).

croppern.⁴

Printing. The name given to a small printing-machine, the Minerva platen, after H. S. Cropper, the inventor (1866). Also attributive, as cropper boy, cropper-hand, cropper-machine, cropper work.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [noun] > platen

platen printing machine1848

platen machine1849

cropper?1881

Minerva1883

Minerva machine1888

Minerva press1888

Miehle1902

society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinder > [noun] > worker performing specific process

clasp-man1619

clasp-maker1664

gatherer1683

stitcher1805

book-edge gilder1823

tooler1834

marbler1835

book marbler1843

paper marbler1863

forwarder1870

cropper?1881

flush-binder?1881

inlayer1881

boarder1882

filleter1884

clasper1885

placer1902

?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 40 Letter-Press Printing:..Cropper Hand.

1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 28 Cropper, a short term for the ‘cropper’ small printing platen machine.

1892 Daily News 23 Sept. 8/6, Printers' Advt. Cropper hand wants work.

1896 Daily News 30 Oct. 10/6 Compositor (young). Jobbing and cropper.

1901 Daily Chron. 3 Dec. 9/7 Printers.—Young man seeks Situation in machine room; good reference for Cropper work.

1903 Daily Chron. 4 Mar. 9/7 Printers.—Cropper boy wanted.

1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §529 Machine minder, platen; cropper hand; has charge of platen machine.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

n.¹1655

n.²1483

n.³1858

n.⁴?1881

单词	cropper
释义	croppern.¹ Brit. /ˈkrɒpə/, U.S. /ˈkrɑpər/ Etymology: < crop n. + -er suffix¹. A breed of pigeons having the power of greatly distending or puffing up their crops; a pouter. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > domestic pigeon > [noun] > pouter cropper1655 pouter1725 uploper1735 pouter pigeon1793 Isabel1867 1655 I. Walton Compl. Angler (ed. 2) 101 There be Cropers, Carryers, Runts. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. ii. i. xv. 181 Pigeons... Croppers, so called because they can, and usually do, by attracting the Air, blow up their Crops to that strange bigness that they exceed the bulk of the whole body beside. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 293 Pigeon fanciers..can breed them..to a feather..Croppers, Carriers, Jacobines, [etc.]. 1850 E. S. Dixon in Tegetmeier Pigeons (1867) v. 54 Pouters..Provincially they are called Croppers. 1891 Daily News 7 Jan. 3/4 Those Norwich croppers are not half so puffed up as they seem. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). croppern.² Etymology: < crop n. or crop v. + -er suffix¹.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcropper. 1. One who or that which crops. spec. a shearing machine in iron and steel work; also, the workman who operates it. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > cutting equipment > machines slitting-mill?1677 slit-mill1776 shear1845 nail cutter1851 plate shears1861 bar-cutter1874 paper cutter1880 guillotine1881 croppera1884 guillotine shears1884 nibbler1939 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > worker involved in shearing metal bar-cutter1874 shearer?1881 shearman?1881 cropper1921 1483 Cath. Angl. 84 A Cropper, decimator. 1881 Sat. Rev. No. 1319. 182 One can imagine Cicero..imploring the binder to leave the rough edges, and imploring in vain..But..binders were often slaves, and an angry amateur would throw the cropper to feed the lampreys. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 231/2 Cropper, a powerful hand machine for shearing off bolts or rod iron. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §279 Cropper (iron and steel rolling); forge cropper, mill cropper and shearer; a shearer or a hot sawyer who cuts off badly shaped ends of finished bars of iron or steel after rolling. 1937 Times 13 Apr. p. xxxviii/1 Portable hand-lamps, bolt croppers, insulated pliers. 2. A workman who shears the nap of cloth; a cloth-shearer; also, a machine for doing this. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > shearing > one who shearmanc1275 shearer1473 cloth-shearer?c1530 cropper1711 1711 R. Thoresby Diary (1830) II. 89 A fund for the aged and poor croppers at 2d or 4d per cloth. 1888 F. Peel Risings of Luddites 42 The discontented croppers of Liversedge. 3. One who raises a crop, or successive crops.Locally in U.S. and elsewhere used more or less specifically: see quots. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > [noun] > one who planter1281 cropper1580 growera1687 raiser1707 vegetist1775 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 21^v Though breadcorne & drinkcorn, such croppers do stand: count peason or brank, as a comfort to land. 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 19 What croppers bee, here learne to see. 1850 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 11 ii. 727 The land is occupied by tenants called Croppers, who pay rents amounting to 5l. or 6l. per acre, which they are enabled to pay by never letting the land lie idle, and growing crops of vegetables in rapid succession, which they carry to the Bristol market. 1886 Q. Rev. Oct. 109 A cropper hires for two years, at a low rent from a squatter, a bit of waste land, undertaking to clear it and grow wheat upon it. After this it is ready for English grass. To succeed, a cropper must work hard with his own hands. 1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms Cropper, a farmer on commission, the consideration being..calculated by the proprietor on the basis of the crop produced. 4. A plant which yields a crop. (Usually with qualification.) ΘΚΠ the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > food plant or vegetable > [noun] > crop-plant cropper1845 crop-plant1906 1845 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 6 ii. 352 The best croppers for feeding cattle. 1882 Garden 14 Jan. 19/3 Apples and Pears..having the stamp of excellent croppers. Compounds cropper-worker n. One who works a cropping-machine (for cloth). ΚΠ 1891 Labour Commission Gloss. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021). croppern.³ Etymology: perhaps < phrase neck and crop.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcropper. colloquial. A heavy fall; usually in to come (fall, get) a cropper: often figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > come to grief misfareOE miswendOE misferec1275 misspeeda1387 miscarryc1387 mischieve?a1400 to catch copper1530 to lose one's seatc1540 mischief1598 to bu(r)st one's boiler1824 to come to grief1850 to come (also go) a mucker1851 to come (fall, get) a cropper1858 mucker1862 to go or be up the flume1865 to come undone1899 to play smash1903 to come to a sticky end1904 to come unstuck1911 society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > fall off wendc1300 flit1430 unhorse1583 to be floored1826 to come (fall, get) a cropper1858 to come (also have) a buster1874 to come off1874 volunteer1890 to take a toss1917 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [noun] > falling down or from erect position (animates) > severe fall breakneck1563 plumper1810 purl1825 mucker1851 cropper1858 burster1863 smasher1875 crumpler1883 smeller1923 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > fall [verb (intransitive)] > fall down or from erect position > specifically of person or animal to light lowc1225 wendc1300 to seek to the earth or groundc1330 tumblea1375 stretchc1400 to take a fall1413 to blush to the eartha1500 to come down1603 to go to grassa1640 to be floored1826 to take a spilla1845 to come (fall, get) a cropper1858 to hunt grass1872 to come (also have) a buster1874 to hit the deck1954 1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma liii. 244 [He] rode at an impracticable fence, and got a cropper for his pains. 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 133 Cropper, ‘to go a cropper’, or ‘to come a cropper’, i.e., to fail badly. 1875 A. Trollope Way we live Now I. xxxviii. 241 He would ‘be coming a cropper rather,’ were he to marry Melmotte's daughter for her money, and then find that she had got none. 1877 H. A. Leveson Sport Many Lands 464 My horse put his foot in a hole and came down a cropper. 1951 T. Rattigan Who is Sylvia? i. 230 We bachelors welcome competition from married men. We so much enjoy watching them come the inevitable cropper. 1963 Times 30 Jan. 1/7 I came a proper cropper, dearie, all black and blue I was. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2020). croppern.⁴ Printing. The name given to a small printing-machine, the Minerva platen, after H. S. Cropper, the inventor (1866). Also attributive, as cropper boy, cropper-hand, cropper-machine, cropper work. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [noun] > platen platen printing machine1848 platen machine1849 cropper?1881 Minerva1883 Minerva machine1888 Minerva press1888 Miehle1902 society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinder > [noun] > worker performing specific process clasp-man1619 clasp-maker1664 gatherer1683 stitcher1805 book-edge gilder1823 tooler1834 marbler1835 book marbler1843 paper marbler1863 forwarder1870 cropper?1881 flush-binder?1881 inlayer1881 boarder1882 filleter1884 clasper1885 placer1902 ?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 40 Letter-Press Printing:..Cropper Hand. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 28 Cropper, a short term for the ‘cropper’ small printing platen machine. 1892 Daily News 23 Sept. 8/6, Printers' Advt. Cropper hand wants work. 1896 Daily News 30 Oct. 10/6 Compositor (young). Jobbing and cropper. 1901 Daily Chron. 3 Dec. 9/7 Printers.—Young man seeks Situation in machine room; good reference for Cropper work. 1903 Daily Chron. 4 Mar. 9/7 Printers.—Cropper boy wanted. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §529 Machine minder, platen; cropper hand; has charge of platen machine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.¹1655n.²1483n.³1858n.⁴?1881
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Compounds

croppern.3

croppern.4

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croppern.²

croppern.³

croppern.⁴