Definition of Crop

  • (n.) The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.
  • (n.) The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Grain or other product of the field while standing.
  • (n.) Anything cut off or gathered.
  • (n.) Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.
  • (n.) A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial.
  • (n.) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
  • (n.) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
  • (n.) A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.
  • (v. t.) To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.
  • (v. t.) To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.
  • (v. i.) To yield harvest.

Antonyms of Crop


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