Collins English-English Dictionary

crop [krɑp]

1. 1. n the produce of cultivated plants, esp cereals, vegetables, and fruit

2. 2. n the amount of such produce in any particular season

3. 3. n the yield of some other farm produce

   the lamb crop

4. 4. n a group of products, thoughts, people, etc, appearing at one time or in one season

   a crop of new publications

5. 5. n the stock of a thonged whip

6. 6. n short for riding crop

7. 7. n a pouchlike expanded part of the oesophagus of birds, in which food is stored or partially digested before passing on to the gizzard

8. 8. n a similar structure in insects, earthworms, and other invertebrates

9. 9. n the entire tanned hide of an animal

10. 10. n a short cropped hairstyle - See also Eton crop

11. 11. n a notch in or a piece cut out of the ear of an animal

12. 12. n the act of cropping

13. 13. vb [mainly tr] to cut (hair, grass, etc) very short

14. 14. vb to cut and collect (mature produce) from the land or plant on which it has been grown

15. 15. vb to clip part of (the ear or ears) of (an animal), esp as a means of identification

16. 16. vb [also intr] to cause (land) to bear or (of land) to bear or yield a crop

    the land cropped well

17. 17. vb (of herbivorous animals) to graze on (grass or similar vegetation)

18. 18. vb [photog] to cut off or mask unwanted edges or areas of (a negative or print)

19. 19. vb See also crop out crop up

20. 20. vb [Etymology] Old English cropp; related to Old Norse kroppr rump, body, Old High German kropf goitre, Norwegian kröypa to bend