noun. A small bed-and-platen printing-press invented by George P. Gordon (1858) of New York, but named from the machinist (H. S. Cropper) who introduced it into Great Britain.

noun. A breed of pigeons with a large crop. See pouter.

noun. A fall, as from horseback; especially, a fall in which the rider is thrown neck and crop over the horse's head; hence, failure in an undertaking.

noun. A machine for facing cloth.

noun. A powerful hand-tool for cutting off bolts or iron rods.

noun. A plant which furnishes a crop: qualified by large or small, heavy or light, etc.

noun. One who raises a crop or crops on shares; one who cultivates land for its owner in consideration of part of the crop.

noun. One that crops.

noun. A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter.

noun. A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.

noun. A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse.

noun. a person who nurtures and gathers a crop

noun. a variety of plant producing a good harvest

noun. A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.

noun. a fall, a tumble; see come a cropper

noun. a breed of domestic pigeon with large crop

noun. small farmers and tenants

"Thus the cropper was a worker, not an owner; his status was halfway between a kind of serfdom and the autonomy of ownership."

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