different between cropping vs snipping

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cropping

cropping (plural croppings)

The act by which something is cut short or truncated.
The vet was regularly called upon to perform ear croppings.
The growing of crops.
(mining) An outcrop that is mined for the ore it contains.
- 1912, John Mason Boutwell, Lester Hood Woolsey, Geology and ore deposits of the Park City district, Utah (page 121)
  The cropping of the Quincy ore-bearing bed, the equivalent of the Daly West bed, is stated to have been found at the east end of the present mine and just below the present wagon road.

snipping

snipping (plural snippings)

The act by which something is snipped or cut.
- 1993, Raymond Leppard, Thomas P. Lewis, Raymond Leppard on Music (page 78)
  There was a time when all manner of snippings were made to keep Handel's operas within bounds.
A piece cut off; a clipping.
- 1975, Gerald Brenan, St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry (page 82)
  One of them bit off his toe, others took snippings from his hair or tore off his nails and would have cut pieces from his flesh had they not been prevented.

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