Meaning of CROPPER
| Pronunciation: | | 'krâpur
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| | Definition: | | [n] small farmers and tenants |
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| | Synonyms: | | sharecrop farmer, sharecropper |
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| | See Also: | | agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer | |
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| | Definition: | | \Crop"per\ (kr?p"p?r), n.
1. One that crops.
2. A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter.
3. (Mech.) A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts
or rod iron, or for facing cloth.
4. A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in
hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse. [Slang.]
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| | Related Terms: | | agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, Bauer, breakdown, coffee-planter, collapse, collective farm worker, comedown, crash, crofter, culbute, cultivator, deflation, dirt farmer, dive, downfall, dry farmer, fall, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, flop, forced landing, gentleman farmer, granger, grower, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, header, husbandman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, muzhik, nose dive, peasant, peasant holder, picker, planter, plowboy, plowman, plunge, pratfall, raiser, rancher, ranchman, reaper, rustic, sharecropper, smash, sower, spill, sprawl, stumble, tailspin, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tiller, tree farmer, trip, truck farmer, tumble, yeoman |
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