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crop-ears

crop-ears is the plural of crop-ear.

Meaning of crop-ear

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...

Questions about crop-ears

What is crop-ears the plural of?
Crop-ears is the plural of crop-ear.

Words near crop-ears in the dictionary

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

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