Cropped. World English Historical Dictionary

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ppl. a. Also cropt. [f. CROP v. and sb. + -ED.]

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  1.  Cut off; cut short; plucked, lopped, pruned.

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1558.  Phaër, Æneid., VI. (R.). Lothly croppid nose.

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1623.  Drumm. of Hawth., Flowers of Sion (R.). Like a crop’d rose that languishing doth fade.

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1687.  Lond. Gaz., No. 2289/7. A plain brown cropt Nag.

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1856.  R. W. Procter, Barber’s Shop, xxi. (1883), 209. [They] shook their cropped heads in the faces of the dainty Cavaliers.

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  2.  Sowed or planted with crops.

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1840.  T. A. Trollope, Summer in Brittany, I. 189. The flat and richly cropped district of the marshes.

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  3.  Having a crop. Chiefly in comb., as full-cropped.

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1486.  Bk. St. Albans, A vj b. Ye shall say yowre hawke is full goorged and not cropped.

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  4.  Comb. † Cropped-eared = CROP-EARED 2.

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1641–2.  D. Lewis, in Rushw., Hist. Coll. (1721), IV. III. I. 482. A company of prick-eared and cropt-eared Rascals.

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