crop /krop/

1. The total quantity produced, cut or harvested
2. The total growth or produce
3. A cultivated plant, collectively
4. A number, quantity (of products, ideas, etc) produced or appearing at a time, a supply
5. A season's yield
6. An end cut off
7. An act or mode of cutting
8. A style of cutting or wearing short hair
9. A hunting whip with loop instead of lash
10. The craw, a dilatation of a bird's oesophagus
11. A similar structure in another animal
12. A complete tanned hide of an animal
13. A finial (architecture)
14. An outcrop

1. To cut off the top, ends, margins or loose parts of
2. To cut short
3. To mow, reap or gather
4. (esp of grazing animals) to bite off in eating
5. To raise crops on
6. To cut the hair of

1. To yield a crop
2. To come to the surface (with up or out)
3. Hence, to come (up) casually, as in conversation

cropˈful noun (pl cropˈfuls)

As much as a bird's crop can hold

cropfullˈ adjective

Satiated, filled to repletion

croppˈer noun

1. Someone or something that crops
2. A plant that yields a crop
3. A person who raises a crop in exchange for a share of it (also share cropper)
4. A kind of pigeon noted for its large crop
5. A small platen printing machine
6. A fall (informal)
7. A failure (informal)

croppˈing noun

1. The act of cutting off
2. The raising of crops
3. An outcrop (geology)

croppˈy noun

One of the Irish rebels of 1798 who cut their hair short, like the French Revolutionists

cropˈbound adjective

(of birds) suffering from impaction of the crop

crop circle noun

A swirled or flattened circle in a field of arable crop, orig thought to be a natural phenomenon caused by particular meteorological conditions on an undulating landscape but in most instances now proved to be man-made as a hoax (also called corn circle)

cropˈduster noun

1. An aircraft that sprays crops from the air with fungicides or insecticides
2. The pilot of such an aircraft

cropˈ-dusting noun

cropˈ-ear noun (obsolete)

A person, horse, dog, etc with cropped ears

cropˈ-eared adjective

1. (of a person, horse, dog, etc) having the ears cropped
2. (of a Puritan) having hair cropped to show the ears (used by Cavaliers as gibe)

• close corporations
• close-coupled
• close-cropped
• closed
• closed book
• closed books
• closed-chain
• closed circuit
• closed circuits
• closed-circuit television
• closed-circuit televisions
• closed communities
• closed community
• closed couplet
• closed couplets
• closed-door
• closed-end
• closed-in
• closed-loop
• close down
• closedown
• closed population
• closed populations
• closed scholarship
• closed scholarships