'Cropping' definitions:
Definition of 'Cropping'
From: GCIDE
- Crop \Crop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cropped (kr[o^]pt); 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest. [1913 Webster]
- Death . . . .crops the growing boys. --Creech. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [PJC]
Words containing 'Cropping'
- -cropped,
- -cropping,
- Crop,
- Cropful,
- Cropped,
- To crop out,
- To crop up,
- crop out,
- crop up,
- Catch crop,
- Cover crop,
- Fallow crop,
- Green crop,
- Neck and crop,
- Rotation of crops,
- Succession of crops,
- White crop,
- Winter crop,
- cash crop,
- cream of the crop,
- crop failure,
- field crop,
- hunting crop,
- riding crop,
- root crop,
- strip cropping,
- Catch-cropping,
- Crop-ear,
- Crop-eared,
- Crop-tailed,
- Wamble-cropped,
- crop-dusting,
- field-crop,
- Way-going crop