CROP (a word common. in various forms, such as Germ. Kropf, to many Teutonic languages for a swelling, excrescence, round head or top of anything; it appears also in Romanic languages derived from Teutonic, in Fr. as troupe, whence the English " crupper "

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CROP (a word common. in various forms, such as Germ. Kropf, to many Teutonic languages for a swelling, excrescence, round head or top of anything; it appears also in Romanic languages derived from Teutonic, in Fr. as troupe, whence the English " crupper " ; and in Ital. groppo, whence

English

ENGLISH

" group "), the ingluvies, or pouched expansion of a bird's oesophagus, in which the food remains to undergo a preparatory process of digestion before being passed into the true stomach. From the meaning of " top " or " head," as applied to a plant, herb or flower, comes the common use of the word for the
more particular expressions are the "

white

-crop," for such

grain

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

crops as barley or wheat, which whiten as they grow ripe; and " green-crop " for such as roots or potatoes which do not, and also for those which are cut in a green state, like clover (see

AGRICULTURE

). Other uses, more or less technical, of the word are, in leather-dressing, for the whole untrimmed hide; in mining and

geology

GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

, for the " outcrop " or

appearance

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

at the surface of a vein or stratum and, particularly in tin mining, of the best

part

PART

of the ore produced after dressing. A "

hunting

HUNTING (the verbal substantive from " hunt "; O. Eng. huntian, hunta; apparently connected with O. Eng. hentan, Gothic hinpan, to capture, O.H.G. hunda,booty)

-crop " isa short thick stock for a whip, with a small leather loop at one end, to which a thong. may be attached. From the verb " to crop," i.e. to take off the top of anything, comes " crop" meaning a closely cut head of

hair

HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

, found in the name " croppy " given to the Roundheads at the time of the

Great

GREAT

Rebellion, to the Catholics in Ireland in 1688 by the Orangemen, probably with reference to the priests' tonsures, and to the Irish rebels of 1798, who cut their

hair

HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

short in imitation of the French revolutionaries.

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