| crop (def. 7). |
[krop] 
noun, verb, cropped or (Archaic
) cropt; crop⋅ping.| 1. | the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered: the wheat crop. |
| 2. | the yield of such produce for a particular season. |
| 3. | the yield of some other product in a season: the crop of diamonds. |
| 4. | a supply produced. |
| 5. | a collection or group of persons or things appearing or occurring together: this year's crop of students. |
| 6. | the stock or handle of a whip. |
| 7. | Also called riding crop. a short riding whip consisting of a stock without a lash. |
| 8. | Also called craw. Zoology.
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| 9. | the act of cropping. |
| 10. | a mark produced by clipping the ears, as of cattle. |
| 11. | a close-cropped hair style. |
| 12. | a head of hair so cut. |
| 13. | an entire tanned hide of an animal. |
| 14. | Mining. an outcrop of a vein or seam. |
| 15. | to cut off or remove the head or top of (a plant, grass, etc.). |
| 16. | to cut off the ends or a part of: to crop the ears of a dog. |
| 17. | to cut short. |
| 18. | to clip the ears, hair, etc., of. |
| 19. | Photography. to cut off or mask the unwanted parts of (a print or negative). |
| 20. | to cause to bear a crop or crops. |
| 21. | to graze off (the tops of plants, grass, etc.): The sheep cropped the lawn. |
| 22. | to bear or yield a crop or crops. |
| 23. | to feed by cropping or grazing. |
| 24. | crop out,
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| 25. | crop up, to appear, esp. suddenly or unexpectedly: A new problem cropped up. |