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sharecrop
English
Etymology
share +? crop
Verb
sharecrop (third-person singular simple present sharecrops, present participle sharecropping, simple past and past participle sharecropped)
- To participate in a financial arrangement in which a tenant farmer pays for use of land with a share (part) of the crop raised on that land.
Anagrams
- horsecrap
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crop
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)
- (agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
- The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
- A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
- A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
- The lashing end of a whip.
- An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
- A rocky outcrop.
- The act of cropping.
- A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
- A short haircut.
- (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.
- XIX c., George MacDonald, The Early Bird:
- (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
- (archaic or dialect) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
- (mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
- (mining) An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- 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)
- (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.
- (transitive) To mow, reap or gather.
- (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
- (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
- (intransitive) To yield harvest.
- (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
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