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cropped, ppl. a.|krɒpt|
Also cropt.
[f. crop v. and n. + -ed.]
1. Cut off; cut short; plucked, lopped, pruned.
1558T. Phaer æneid. vi. (R.), Lothly croppid nose. 1623Drummond of Hawthornden Flowers of Sion (R.), Like a crop'd rose that languishing doth fade. 1687Lond. Gaz. No. 2289/7 A plain brown cropt Nag. 1856R. W. Procter Barber's Shop xxi. (1883) 209 [They] shook their cropped heads in the faces of the dainty Cavaliers.
2. Sowed or planted with crops.
1840T. A. Trollope Summ. Brittany I. 189 The flat and richly cropped district of the marshes.
3. Having a crop. Chiefly in comb., as full-cropped.
1486Bk. St. Albans A vj b, Ye shall say yowre hawke is full goorged and not cropped.
4. Comb. † cropped-eared = crop-eared 2.
1641–2D. Lewis in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1721) IV. iii. I. 482 A company of prick-eared and cropt-eared Rascals.
▸ Of a garment: cut shorter than is usual. Cf. crop adj.
[1951Ironwood (Mich.) Daily Globe 17 Aug. 8/4 The very full, new skirts are worn with short-cropped jackets.] 1954News Jrnl. (Mansfield, Ohio) 23 Feb. 20/1 Party coats are being shown in full-length styles and in tiny, cropped jackets. 1970Vogue Jan. 37/1 Pillar box cotton jersey for the jeans..and cropped T-shirt. 1982N.Y. Times (Nexis) 21 Dec. b16 We are continuing the..short cropped tops, which we're making even shorter. 1999Daily Tel. 23 Sept. 5/2 Belts made from shells were slung around the hips of..cropped pants. |