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English (East Anglia)
English (East Anglia) : habitational name from Cropley Grove in Suffolk, which is probably named from Old English cropp ‘swelling’, ‘mound’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.Probably an Americanized spelling of Swiss German Kroppli, a variant of Kropf.
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English
English : nickname for a bald man or one who kept his hair extremely close-cropped, from Middle English not(te) ‘bald’ (Old English hnott).English : variant spelling of Knott.German : of uncertain origin; perhaps either a nickname for an inconspicuous person, from Middle Low German not(e) ‘nut’, or a derivative of Middle Low German note ‘companion’.
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English : metonymic occupational name for a harvester of fruit, vegetables, or corn, from Middle English cropp, a noun derivative of cropt(en) ‘to pick’. Compare Cropper.English : topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill, Middle English cropp.Americanized spelling of German Kropp or of German and Dutch Krapp.
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English (chiefly Lancashire)
English (chiefly Lancashire) : occupational name for a picker of fruit or vegetables or a reaper of cereal crops, from an agent derivative of Middle English cropt(en) ‘to pick’. The word was used also to denote the polling of cattle and the name may therefore have been given to someone who did this.
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English : nickname for someone with close-cropped hair or a large head, Middle English bolling ‘pollard’, or for a heavy drinker, from Middle English bolling ‘excessive drinking’.German (Bölling) : from a pet form of a personal name formed with Germanic bald ‘bold’, ‘brave’ (see Baldwin).Swedish : either an ornamental name composed of Boll + the suffix -ing ‘belonging to’, or possibly a habitational name from a place named Bolling(e).
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English : habitational name from any of the various places called Crofton, for example in Cumbria, Greater London (formerly in Kent), Hampshire, Lincolnshire, Wiltshire, and West Yorkshire. Most of these are named from Old English croft ‘paddock’, ‘vegetable garden’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’, but the one in Greater London probably has as its first element Old English cropp ‘swelling’, ‘mound’ (compare Cropper) and that in Lincolnshire Old English croh ‘saffron’ (from Latin crocus).A family called Crofton was established in Ireland by John Crofton (died 1610), who held high office under Elizabeth I and acquired vast estates when he accompanied Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy, into Ireland in 1565.
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p. pr. & vb. n.
of Crop
a.
That may be plucked off, cropped, or torn away.
n.
One that crops.
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The act of grazing; the cropping of grass.
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A person or animal whose ears are cropped.
v. t.
To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
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A kind of shears used in cropping woolen cloth.
n. pl.
An instrument for cropping and holding the snuff of a candle.
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A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter.
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Having the ears cropped.
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The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges.
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A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse.
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The act of plucking off; a cropping.
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An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large.
imp. & p. p.
of Crop
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A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.
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Deprived of a poll, or of something belonging to the poll. Specifically: (a) Lopped; -- said of trees having their tops cut off. (b) Cropped; hence, bald; -- said of a person. "The polled bachelor." Beau. & Fl. (c) Having cast the antlers; -- said of a stag. (d) Without horns; as, polled cattle; polled sheep.
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Having the tail cropped.
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A stubble field left unplowed till late in the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle.
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Sick at the stomach; also, crestfallen; dejected.