单词 | cropper |
释义 | cropper[ krop-er ] / ˈkrɒp ər / SEE SYNONYMS FOR cropper ON THESAURUS.COM nouna person or thing that crops. a person who raises a crop. a person who cultivates land for its owner in return for part of the crop; sharecropper. a plant that furnishes a crop. a cloth-shearing machine. Idioms for cropper
come a cropper, Informal. Origin of cropperFirst recorded in 1475–85; crop + -er1 Words nearby croppercrop-dusting, crop-eared, cropland, crop milk, crop out, cropper, croppie, crop rotation, cropt, crop top, crop up Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for cropperBritish Dictionary definitions for croppercropper / (ˈkrɒpə) / nouna person who cultivates or harvests a crop
a machine for shearing the nap from cloth a plant or breed of plant that will produce a certain kind of crop under specified conditionsa poor cropper on light land (often capital) a variety of domestic pigeon with a puffed-out crop come a cropper informal
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