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crop (kr<ocr/p), n. [OE. crop, croppe, craw, top of a plant, harvest, AS. crop, cropp, craw, top, bu
| crop | (kr<ocr/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.
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2.
The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree. [Obs.] Crop and root. Chaucer.
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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.
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-Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop, |
| crop | , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cropped (kr<ocr/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.
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-I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one. Ezek. xvii. 22.
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2.
Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.
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-Death . . . .crops the growing boys. Creech.
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3.
To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.
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4.
to cut off an unnecessary portion at the edges; -- of photographs and other two-dimensional images; as, to crop her photograph up to the shoulders.
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| crop | , v. i.
To yield harvest.
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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.
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