GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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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.
   
   [1913 Webster] 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.
   
   [1913 Webster] 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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   cropped adj.
   
   1. cut very short; as, “her cropped hair”.
   
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   2. having an unnecessary portion at the edges cut off; -- of photographs and other two-dimensional images.
   
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