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 [syn:
       craw, crop]
    v 1: cut short; "She wanted her hair cropped short"
    2: prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land"
       [syn: cultivate, crop, work]
    3: yield crops; "This land crops well"
    4: let feed in a field or pasture or meadow [syn: crop,
       graze, pasture]
    5: feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing" [syn:
       crop, browse, graze, range, pasture]
    6: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the
       plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim,
       lop, dress, prune, cut back]

Crop \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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Crop \Crop\ (kr[o^]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,
            Corn, wine, and oil.                  --Milton.
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   4. Grain or other product of the field while standing.
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   5. Anything cut off or gathered.
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            Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free,
            It falls a plenteous crop reserved for thee.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   6. Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so
      cutting; as, a convict's crop.
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   7. (Arch.) A projecting ornament in carved stone.
      Specifically, a finial. [Obs.]
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   8. (Mining.)
      (a) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
      (b) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface. --Knight.
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   9. A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.
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   Neck and crop, altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.]
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Crop \Crop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cropped (kr[o^]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. This word is nearly synonymous with emblements. (q.v.),
     2. As between the landlord and tenant, the former has a lien; in some 
of the states, upon the crop for the rent, for a limited time, and, if sold 
on an execution against the tenant, the purchaser succeeds to the liability 
of the tenant, for rent and good husbandry, and the crop is still liable to 
be distrained. Tenn. St. 1825, c. 21; Misso. St. 377; Del. St. 1829, 366; 1 
N. J. R. C. 187; Atk. Dig. 357; 1 N. Y. R. S. 746; 1 Ky. R. L. 639; 5 Watts, 
R. 134; 41 Griff. Reg. 671, 404; 1 Hill. Ab. 148, 9; 5 Penn. St. R. 211. 
     3. A crop is not considered is a part of the real estate, so as to make 
a sale of it void, when the contract has not been reduced to writing, within 
the statute of frauds. 11 East, 362; 2 M. & S. 205; 5 B. & C. 829; 10 Ad. & 
El. 753; 9 B. & C. 561; but see 9 M. & W. 501. 
     4. If a husband sow land and die, and the land which was sown is 
assigned to the wife for her dower, she shall have the corn, and not the 
executors of the husband. Inst. 81.