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Crop   /krɑp/   Listen
Crop

noun
1.
The yield from plants in a single growing season.  Synonym: harvest.
2.
A cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale.
3.
A collection of people or things appearing together.
4.
The output of something in a season.
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: craw.
verb
(past & past part. cropped; pres. part. cropping)
1.
Cut short.
2.
Prepare for crops.  Synonyms: cultivate, work.  "Cultivate the land"
3.
Yield crops.
4.
Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow.  Synonyms: graze, pasture.
5.
Feed as in a meadow or pasture.  Synonyms: browse, graze, pasture, range.
6.
Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of.  Synonyms: clip, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip, trim.



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"Crop" Quotes from Famous Books



... became of poor Boland's twenty acres of crop? Part of it went to Gibraltar, to victual the garrison; part to South Africa, to provision the robber army; part went to Spain, to pay for the landlord's wine; part to London, to pay the interest of his honour's mortgage to the ...
— Speeches from the Dock, Part I • Various
... there is nothing coming to inspire war doggerel; the prospect of a new crop of war stories and war plays is too painful. We were all brought up on the Civil War and are resigned to its literature. But life is too short to get used ...
— Senator North • Gertrude Atherton
... learned only by practice. The farmer must be made by and through farm work. I believe I might be able to give you a fair account of a bean plant and of the manner and condition of its growth, but if I were to try to raise a crop of beans, your club would probably laugh consumedly at the result. Nevertheless, I believe that you practical people would be all the better for the scientific knowledge which does not enable me to grow beans. It would keep you from attempting hopeless experiments, ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley
... lord, whose good-looking face had been adorned and made positively handsome by a sweeping brown moustache, had, since our last meeting, "raised" an uneven crop of reddish whiskers that shortened a face somewhat too round, and altogether vulgarized ...
— The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) • Marion Harland
... service, which I have attempted to describe, is one admirably adapted to it. It is one of the most fertile and wealthy portions of Middle Tennessee, a region unsurpassed in productiveness. Yet teeming as it is with every crop which the farmer wishes, one would think, in riding along the fine turnpikes which enter Nashville upon all sides, that a comparatively small proportion of the land is cultivated. A dense growth of timber, principally cedar, ...
— History of Morgan's Cavalry • Basil W. Duke


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