a. [f. CROP sb. + -LESS.] Without a crop; having no crop.
a. 1845. Hood, Answ. Pauper, iv. What’s weather to the cropless? You Don’t farm.
a. 1852. Macgillivray, Nat. Hist. Dee Side (1855), 286. The brown peat forms the soil and subsoil, crumbled and cropless.
