Crop | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Crŏp, n.

noun

n. [A-S. crop, cropp, crop or craw of a fowl, top, bunch, cluster, ear of corn, crop; D. krop, Ger. kropf, W. cropa, croppa, crop or craw of a bird, Ir. & Gael. sgrobhan.]

The protuberant upper receptacle of food of a bird, situated in the throat; the craw.
The top, end, or highest part of any thing; especially of a plant.
That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single field, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the valuable product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest.

The hands which are sometimes lift up in prayer must at other times be put to the plow, or the husbandman must expect no crop. South. 4. Any thing cut off or gathered. Dryden.

Crŏp, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. CROPPED (krŏpt); p. pr. & vb. n. CROPPING.] 1. To cut off the ends of; to bite or pull off; to pluck; to mow; to reap. “A closely cropped head of hair.” Thackeray. No more, my goats, shall I behold you climb The steepy cliffs or crop the flowery thyme. Dryden. While force our youth, like fruits, untimely crops. Denham. 2. To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.

Crŏp, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. To yield harvest. [Obs.] Shak.

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.