aftercrops

Noun

aftercrop (plural aftercrops)

1. A second crop in the same year.
   • No question but you grieued inward much,
     As doth the Miser, in a backward yeare:
     When others reape, to see your harvest such,
     And all your hopes, but in their blade appeare:
     Ladie, let henceforth nought disease your rest,
     For after-crops doe sometime prooue the best.1612, Henry Peacham, “Adhuc mea messis in herba”, in Minerva Britanna or A Garden of Heroical Devises, London, page 150