ppl. a. Also cropt. [f. CROP v. and sb. + -ED.]
1. Cut off; cut short; plucked, lopped, pruned.
1558. Phaër, Æneid., VI. (R.). Lothly croppid nose.
1623. Drumm. of Hawth., Flowers of Sion (R.). Like a crop’d rose that languishing doth fade.
1687. Lond. Gaz., No. 2289/7. A plain brown cropt Nag.
1856. R. W. Procter, Barber’s Shop, xxi. (1883), 209. [They] shook their cropped heads in the faces of the dainty Cavaliers.
2. Sowed or planted with crops.
1840. T. A. Trollope, Summer in Brittany, I. 189. The flat and richly cropped district of the marshes.
3. Having a crop. Chiefly in comb., as full-cropped.
1486. Bk. St. Albans, A vj b. Ye shall say yowre hawke is full goorged and not cropped.
4. Comb. † Cropped-eared = CROP-EARED 2.
1641–2. D. Lewis, in Rushw., Hist. Coll. (1721), IV. III. I. 482. A company of prick-eared and cropt-eared Rascals.
