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.
{To crop out}.
(a) (Geol.) To appear above the surface, as a seam or vein,
or inclined bed, as of coal.
(b) To come to light; to be manifest; to appear; as, the
peculiarities of an author crop out.
{To crop up}, to sprout; to spring up. ``Cares crop up in
villas.`` --Beaconsfield.
2. The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a
plant or tree. [Obs.] ``Crop and root.'' --Chaucer.
3. That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single
felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a
single season; especially, the product of what is planted
in the earth; fruit; harvest.
Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop, Corn,
wine, and oil. --Milton.
4. Grain or other product of the field while standing.
5. Anything cut off or gathered.
Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free, It
falls a plenteous crop reserved for thee. --Dryden.
6. Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so
cutting; as, a convict's crop.
7. (Arch.) A projecting ornament in carved stone.
Specifically, a finial. [Obs.]
8. (Mining.)
(a) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
(b) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface. --Knight.
9. A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.
{Neck and crop}, altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.]