'Cropper' definitions:
Definition of 'cropper'
(from WordNet)
noun
Small farmers and tenants [syn: sharecropper, cropper, sharecrop farmer]
Definition of 'Cropper'
From: GCIDE
- Cropper \Crop"per\ (kr?p"p?r), n.
- 1. One that crops. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Mech.) A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse. [Slang.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cropper'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agriculturalist,
- agriculturist,
- agrologist,
- agronomist,
- Bauer,
- breakdown,
- coffee-planter,
- collapse,
- collective farm worker,
- comedown,
- crash,
- crofter,
- culbute,
- cultivator,
- deflation,
- dirt farmer,
- dive,
- downfall,
- dry farmer,
- fall,
- farm laborer,
- farmer,
- farmhand,
- flop,
- forced landing,
- gentleman farmer,
- granger,
- grower,
- harvester,
- harvestman,
- haymaker,
- header,
- husbandman,
- kibbutznik,
- kolkhoznik,
- kulak,
- muzhik,
- nose dive,
- peasant,
- peasant holder,
- picker,
- planter,
- plowboy,
- plowman,
- plunge,
- pratfall,
- raiser,
- rancher,
- ranchman,
- reaper,
- rustic,
- sharecropper,
- smash,
- sower,
- spill,
- sprawl,
- stumble,
- tailspin,
- tea-planter,
- tenant farmer,
- tiller,
- tree farmer,
- trip,
- truck farmer,
- tumble,
- yeoman