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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English mowen (participle mowen), from Old English m?wan (past tense m?ow, past participle m?wen), from Proto-Germanic *m?an? (compare Dutch maaien, German mähen, Danish meje, Swedish meja), from Proto-Indo-European *h?meh?- (“to mow, reap”); compare Hittite [script needed] (?ameš?a, “spring/early summer”, literally “mowing time”), Latin met? (“I harvest, mow”), Ancient Greek ???? (amá?, “I mow”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mo?/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past mowed, past participle mowed or mown)

1. (transitive) To cut down grass or crops.

2. (transitive) To cut down or slaughter in great numbers.
   • 1915, Captain Robert Palmer, Letters from Mesopotamia

     In the afternoon they attacked again, in close formation: our artillery mowed them, but they came on and on, […]

Derived terms

• mow down
• remow

Related terms

• aftermath, math
• mead, meadow

Translations

Noun

mow (plural mows)

1. The act of mowing (a garden, grass etc.)

2. (cricket) A shot played with a sweeping or scythe-like motion.
   • 1828, Sporting Magazine (volume 21? 71? page 10)

     I consider it would engender a stiff, tame, cautious mode of play, with only now and then a mow, or a chopping hit.

Etymology 2

Middle English mowe, from Middle French moue (“lip, pout”), from Old French moe (“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”), from Proto-Germanic *maww? (“muff, sleeve”). Akin to Middle Dutch mouwe (“protruding lip”). Cognate to moue (“pout”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mo?/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

mow (plural mows)

1. (now only dialectal) A scornful grimace; a wry face. [from 14th c.]
   • , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.212:

     Those that paint them dying […] delineate the prisoners spitting in their executioners faces, and making mowes at them.

Translations

Verb

mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past and past participle mowed)

1. To make grimaces, mock.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2

     For every trifle are they set upon me: / Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me, / And after bite me;

   • 1848, Henry Walter (editor), William Tyndale (original author), Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures

     Nodding, becking, and mowing.

Translations

Etymology 3

Old English m?ga. Cognate with Norwegian muge (“heap, crowd, flock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma??/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

mow (plural mows)

1. (now regional) A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
2. The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.

Translations

Verb

mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past and past participle mowed)

1. (agriculture) To put into mows.

Translations

Etymology 4

Noun

mow (plural mows)

1. Alternative form of mew (a seagull)

See also

• Mow in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• OMW, WMO

Middle English

Etymology 1

Feom Old English magan (“to use, to win, to be able to”).

Verb

mow

1. Alternative form of mowen (“to be able to”)

Etymology 2

Feom Old English m?wan (“to mow”).

Verb

mow

1. Alternative form of mowen (“to mow”)

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kr?p, IPA^(key): /k??p/
• (General American) enPR: kräp, IPA^(key): /k??p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English crop, cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, trunk, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to warp, bend, crawl”). Cognate with Dutch krop (“crop”), German Low German Kropp (“a swelling on the neck, the craw, maw”), German Kropf (“the craw, ear of grain, head of lettuce or cabbage”), Swedish kropp (“body, trunk”), Icelandic kroppur (“a hunch on the body”). Related to crap, doublet of group and croup.

Noun

crop (plural crops)

1. (agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.

2. The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.

3. A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.

4. A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.

5. The lashing end of a whip.
6. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
7. A rocky outcrop.
8. The act of cropping.
9. A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
10. A short haircut.

11. (anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation; a craw.
    • XIX c., George MacDonald, The Early Bird:

      A little bird sat on the edge of her nest;

      Her yellow-beaks slept as sound as tops;

      Day-long she had worked almost without rest,

      And had filled every one of their gibbous crops;

    • 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", 2005 Norton edition, page 221:

      The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop.

    • 2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)[1]

      As the wildebeest shrinks, the circle of sated birds lounging in the short grass expands. With bulging crops, the vultures settle their heads atop folded wings and slide their nictitating membranes shut.

12. (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
13. (archaic or dialect) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
14. (mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
15. (mining) An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.

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16. An entire oxhide.

Synonyms

• (harvest): harvest, yield
• (whip used on horses): hunting crop, riding crop, whip, bat

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• gizzard

Etymology 2

From Middle English croppen (“to cut, pluck and eat”), from Middle English *croppian. Cognate with Scots crap (“to crop”), Dutch kroppen (“to cram, digest”), Low German kröppen (“to cut, crop, stuff the craw”), German kröpfen (“to crop”), Icelandic kroppa (“to cut, crop, pick”). Literally, to take off the crop (top, head, ear) of a plant. See Etymology 1.

Verb

crop (third-person singular simple present crops, present participle cropping, simple past and past participle cropped)

1. (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.

   • I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.

2. (transitive) To mow, reap or gather.
3. (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
4. (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
5. (intransitive) To yield harvest.
6. (transitive) To cause to bear a crop.

   to crop a field

Derived terms

• outcrop
• crop up

Translations

See also

• Wikipedia article on the crop of an animal
• Wikipedia article on riding crops
• Wikipedia article on cropping images

References

• crop at OneLook Dictionary Search
• crop in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Copr., Corp, Corp., RCPO, corp, corp., proc