after-cropn.
/ˈɑːftəkrɒp/, /ˈaftəkrɒp/, U.S. /ˈæftərˌkrɑp/ A second crop harvested, esp. in a single season or year. Also figurative: something extra or additional.
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1562 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 160 My lease and intrest of the aftercroppe of St. Nycolas feld.
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Regain, foin derriére saison, after croppe of haye.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xxv. 157 With autumne hay or the after crop.
1666 T. Watson Godly Mans Picture iv. 269 By principling his Childe with Religion, he bears God an after-crop when he is dead.
1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber xiv. 268 This unexpected After-crop of Cato, largely supplied to us, those Deficiencies.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. ciii. 129 A plenteous after-crop of delicious sprouts.
1789 W. Cowper Let. 12 Aug. (1982) III. 309 We are now gathering from our meadows not hay but muck..that the after crop may have leave to grow.
1831 W. Howitt Bk. Seasons 338 Sowing wheat upon the fallows, also after crops of tares, clover, early peas.
1888 W. Pater Gaston de Latour iii, in Macmillan's Mag. 58 262/1 The unquiet temper of war was still abroad everywhere with an after-crop of miserable incidents.
1917 M. MacDonagh Irish on Somme iii. 34 The after-crops from his old sowings of corn and mustard.
1939 A. Keith Land below Wind i. iv. 66 They all slept in his room with him, as an aftercrop of lice and ringworm attested.
1999 J. D. Mansvelt & M. J. van der Lubbe Checklist for Sustainable Landscape Managem. iii. 48 An under-sown crop to emerge after the main crop or..an after-crop that precedes the next main crop.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† after-cropv.
Obsolete. rare.
intransitive. To sow or harvest an after-crop. Also transitive: to sow (ground) with an after-crop.
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1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry f. 12v/1 Few after crop much, but nodyes & suche.
1873 Country Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 306/2 Its [sc. chervil's] removal is effected in time for the ground being after-cropped with Peas, Turnips, Broccoli.
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