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crop-ear

crop-ear noun: a person or animal (often a horse) whose ears are cropped.

crop-ear: a person or animal (often a horse) whose ears are cropped
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Noun

crop-ear (plural crop-ears)

  1. A person or animal (often a horse) whose ears are cropped.
    • "Well, horse and away!" said the patron, "so soon as you have got your riding livery in trim. You may ride the black crop-ear —and hark ye, I'll make you a present of him to boot."1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald...

crop-ear meaning in Tamil

crop-ear in Tamil

காது தறிக்கப்பட்டவர், காது தறிக்கப்பட்ட குதிரை, காது தறிக்கப்பட்ட நாய்

Forms of crop-ear

pluralcrop-ears

Questions about crop-ear

What does crop-ear mean?
Crop-ear means a person or animal (often a horse) whose ears are cropped.
What is crop-ear in Tamil?
Crop-ear in Tamil is காது தறிக்கப்பட்டவர், காது தறிக்கப்பட்ட குதிரை, காது தறிக்கப்பட்ட நாய். See Crop-ear meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is crop-ear?
Crop-ear is a noun.
What is the plural of crop-ear?
The plural of crop-ear is crop-ears.

Words near crop-ear in the dictionary

  1. crop-dusted
  2. crop-duster
  3. crop-dusting
  4. crop-dustings
  5. crop-dusts
  6. crop-ear
  7. crop-ears
  8. crop-full
  9. crop-rotate
  10. crop-rotated
  11. crop-rotates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crop-ear (page history and authors); crop-ear (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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