Cropper

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A person who works land in return for a share of the yield; a sharecropper.
  • n. A heavy fall; a tumble.
  • n. A disastrous failure; a fiasco.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a fall, a tumble; see come a cropper
  • n. a breed of domestic pigeon with large crop
  • n. a person who nurtures and gathers a crop
  • n. a variety of plant producing a good harvest
  • n. A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One that crops.
  • n. A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter.
  • n. A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.
  • n. A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A breed of pigeons with a large crop. See pouter.
  • n. A machine for facing cloth.
  • n. A powerful hand-tool for cutting off bolts or iron rods.
  • n. A plant which furnishes a crop: qualified by large or small, heavy or light, etc.
  • n. One who raises a crop or crops on shares; one who cultivates land for its owner in consideration of part of the crop.
  • n. A fall, as from horseback; especially, a fall in which the rider is thrown neck and crop over the horse's head; hence, failure in an undertaking.
  • n. A small bed-and-platen printing-press invented by George P. Gordon (1858) of New York, but named from the machinist (H. S. Cropper) who introduced it into Great Britain.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. small farmers and tenants
  • Hypernym
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    Synonym
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    pouter    fall    plumper   
    Rhyme
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    Hopper    Popper    bopper    chopper    copper    dropper    hopper    improper    popper    proper   
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