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cropful

cropful adjective: having a full crop (belly); satiated.

Adjective

cropful (comparative more cropful, superlative most cropful)

  1. Having a full crop (belly); satiated.
    • Through the high wood echoing shrill:
      Basks at the fire his hairy strength ;
      Sometime walking, not unseen,
      And cropful out of doors he slingsa. 1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC

Noun

cropful (plural cropfuls)

  1. Enough to fill the crop of a bird.
    • They are waiting for their parents to return from the sea with cropfuls of fish, squid, krill, or whatever else passes for breakfast.2000, Bernard Stonehouse, The Last Continent: Discovering Antarctica, page 105

Forms of cropful

Adjective
comparativemore cropful
superlativemost cropful
Noun
pluralcropfuls

Origin of cropful

From crop + -ful.

Questions about cropful

What does cropful mean?
Cropful means having a full crop (belly); satiated.
What part of speech is cropful?
Cropful can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near cropful in the dictionary

  1. cropdusting
  2. crope
  3. cropen
  4. cropfield
  5. cropfields
  6. cropful
  7. cropfull
  8. cropfuls
  9. crophead
  10. cropheads
  11. cropland

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