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heathcroppers

heathcroppers is the plural of heathcropper.

Meaning of heathcropper

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

Questions about heathcroppers

What is heathcroppers the plural of?
Heathcroppers is the plural of heathcropper.

Words near heathcroppers in the dictionary

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

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