Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Cropped"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Intercrop \In"ter*crop`\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {-cropped};
p. pr. & vb. n. {-cropping}.] (Agric.)
To cultivate by planting simultaneous crops in alternate
rows; as, to intercrop an orchard. Also, to use for catch
crops at seasons when the ground is not covered by crops of
the regular rotation.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Crop \Crop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cropped} (kr?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.
I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a
tender one. --Ezek. xvii.
22.
2. Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.
Death . . . .crops the growing boys. --Creech.
3. To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cropped
adj 1: cut off as by clipping or biting off; "trees with cropped
tops"; "cropped hedges"; "her short cropped hair";
"the cropped grass where sheep had browsed" [ant: {uncropped}]
2: (of land or soil) used for growing crops; "cropped soil"
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