crop Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the yield from plants in a single growing season
    harvest.
  2. noun a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale
  3. noun a collection of people or things appearing together
    • the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas
  4. noun the output of something in a season
    • the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores
  5. noun the stock or handle of a whip
  6. noun a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
    craw.
  7. verb cut short
    • She wanted her hair cropped short
  8. verb prepare for crops
    cultivate; work.
    • Work the soil
    • cultivate the land
  9. verb yield crops
    • This land crops well
  10. verb let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
    pasture; graze.
  11. verb feed as in a meadow or pasture
    browse; pasture; graze; range.
    • the herd was grazing
  12. verb cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
    trim; prune; clip; cut back; snip; lop; dress.
    • dress the plants in the garden

WordNet

Crop noun
Etymology
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.
Definitions
  1. The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.
  2. The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree. Obs. "Crop and root." Chaucer.
  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.
    Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop, Corn, wine, and oil. Milton.
  4. Grain or other product of the field while standing.
  5. Anything cut off or gathered.
    Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free, It falls a plenteous crop reserved for thee. Dryden.
  6. Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.
  7. (Arch.) A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial. Obs.
  8. (Mining.) (a) Tin ore prepared for smelting. (b) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface. Knight.
  9. A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.
Crop transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Cropped present participle & verbal noun Cropping
Definitions
  1. To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.
    I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one. Ezek. xvii. 22.
  2. Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.
    Death . . . .crops the growing boys. Creech.
  3. To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.
Crop intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To yield harvest. Beaconsfield.

Webster 1913