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   Crop (krŏp), n. [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.]
   1. The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.
   
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   2. The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree. [Obs.] “Crop and root.”  Chaucer.
   
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   3. That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single field, 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.
   
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   Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop,
   
   Corn, wine, and oil. Milton.
   
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   4. Grain or other product of the field while standing.
   
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   5. Anything cut off or gathered.
   
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   Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free,
   
   It falls a plenteous crop reserved for thee. Dryden.
   
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   6. Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, “a convict's crop”.
   
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   7. (Arch.) A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial. [Obs.]
   
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   8. (Mining.) (a) Tin ore prepared for smelting. (b) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.  Knight.
   
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   9. A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.
   
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   Neck and crop, altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.]
   
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   Crop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cropped (krŏpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cropping.]
   1. To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.
   
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   I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one. Ezek. xvii. 22.
   
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   2. Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.
   
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   Death . . . .crops the growing boys.  Creech.
   
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   3. To cause to bear a crop; as, “to crop a field”.
   
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   4. to cut off an unnecessary portion at the edges; -- of photographs and other two-dimensional images; as, “to crop her photograph up to the shoulders”.
   
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   Crop, v. i. To yield harvest.
   
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   To crop out. (a) (Geol.) To appear above the surface, as a seam or vein, or inclined bed, as of coal. (b) To come to light; to be manifest; to appear; as, the peculiarities of an author crop out. -- To crop up, to sprout; to spring up; to appear suddenly. “Cares crop up in villas.”  Beaconsfield.
   
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