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heathcropper

heathcropper noun: a farm animal, particularly a wild pony, kept to graze on the heath, particularly associated with Wessex.

Noun

heathcropper (plural heathcroppers)

  1. (archaic, slang) A farm animal, particularly a wild pony, kept to graze on the heath, particularly associated with Wessex.
    • Would fly about our bedrooms. Heathcroppers / Lived on the hills, and were our only friends: /1916, Thomas Hardy, Domicilium

heathcropper meaning in Bengali

heathcropper in Bengali

একটি খামারের পশু, যাকে তৃণভূমিতে চড়ানো হয়

Forms of heathcropper

pluralheathcroppers

Origin of heathcropper

From heath + cropper.

Questions about heathcropper

What does heathcropper mean?
Heathcropper means a farm animal, particularly a wild pony, kept to graze on the heath, particularly associated with Wessex.
What is heathcropper in Bengali?
Heathcropper in Bengali is একটি খামারের পশু, যাকে তৃণভূমিতে চড়ানো হয়. See Heathcropper meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is heathcropper?
Heathcropper is a noun.
What is the plural of heathcropper?
The plural of heathcropper is heathcroppers.

Words near heathcropper in the dictionary

  1. heathcocks
  2. Heathcote
  3. Heathcote Junction
  4. Heathcote South
  5. Heathcotes
  6. heathcropper
  7. heathcroppers
  8. heathen
  9. heathendom
  10. heathendoms
  11. heathener

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heathcropper (page history and authors); heathcropper (Bengali 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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