a. [f. CROP sb. + -LESS.] Without a crop; having no crop.

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a. 1845.  Hood, Answ. Pauper, iv. What’s weather to the cropless? You Don’t farm.

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a. 1852.  Macgillivray, Nat. Hist. Dee Side (1855), 286. The brown peat forms the soil and subsoil, crumbled and cropless.

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