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English Dictionary: Crop by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
crop
n
  1. the yield from plants in a single growing season [syn: crop, harvest]
  2. a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale
  3. a collection of people or things appearing together; "the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas"
  4. the output of something in a season; "the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores"
  5. the stock or handle of a whip
  6. a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
    Synonym(s): craw, crop
v
  1. cut short; "She wanted her hair cropped short"
  2. prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land"
    Synonym(s): cultivate, crop, work
  3. yield crops; "This land crops well"
  4. let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
    Synonym(s): crop, graze, pasture
  5. feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing"
    Synonym(s): crop, browse, graze, range, pasture
  6. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"
    Synonym(s): snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Crop \Crop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cropped} (kr?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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Crop \Crop\ (kr?p), n. [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.] [bd]Crop and root.[b8] --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.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Crop \Crop\, v. 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. [bd]Cares crop up in
            villas.[bd] --Beaconsfield.
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