croppest

Verb

crop (third-person singular simple present crops, present participle cropping, simple past and past participle cropped)

1. (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
   • I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 17:22
2. (transitive) To mow, reap or gather.
3. (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
   • And the knave who refuses to drink till he fall, / Why the hangman shall crop him — ears, love-locks, and all.1890, George John Whyte-Melville, Holmby House: A Tale of Old Northamptonshire, page 92
4. (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
   • Reduce to six inches wide and crop to eight inches high.1924, Harry Appleton Groesbeck Jr., “Preparation of Copy”, in The Process and Practice of Photo-engraving, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, Indicating Sizes, page 234
5. (intransitive) To yield harvest.
6. (transitive) To cause to bear a crop.
   • to crop a field

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