\Crop\ (kr?p), n. [OE. crop, croppe, craw, top of a plant,
harvest, AS. crop, cropp, craw, top, bunch, ear of corn; akin
to D. krop craw, G. kropf, Icel. kroppr hump or bunch on the
body, body; but cf. also W. cropa, croppa, crop or craw of a
bird, Ir. & Gael. sgroban. Cf. {Croup}, {Crupper}, {Croup}.]
1. The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving
   as a receptacle for food; the craw.
2. The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a
   plant or tree. [Obs.] ``Crop and root.'' --Chaucer.
3. That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single
   felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a
   single season; especially, the product of what is planted
   in the earth; fruit; harvest.
         Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop, Corn,
         wine, and oil.                        --Milton.
4. Grain or other product of the field while standing.
5. Anything cut off or gathered.
         Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free, It
         falls a plenteous crop reserved for thee. --Dryden.
6. Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so
   cutting; as, a convict's crop.
7. (Arch.) A projecting ornament in carved stone.
   Specifically, a finial. [Obs.]
8. (Mining.)
   (a) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
   (b) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface. --Knight.
9. A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.
{Neck and crop}, altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.]

\Crop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cropped} (kr?pt); p. pr. & vb.
n. {Cropping}.]
1. To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to
   browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.
         I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a
         tender one.                           --Ezek. xvii.
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2. Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.
         Death . . . .crops the growing boys. --Creech.
3. To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.

\Crop\, v. i.
To yield harvest.
{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.
{To crop up}, to sprout; to spring up. ``Cares crop up in
   villas.`` --Beaconsfield.