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-cropping
(gcide) | Intercrop \In"ter*crop`\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. -cropped;
p. pr. & vb. n. -cropping.] (Agric.)
To cultivate by planting simultaneous crops in alternate
rows; as, to intercrop an orchard. Also, to use for catch
crops at seasons when the ground is not covered by crops of
the regular rotation.
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Cropping
(gcide) | Crop \Crop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cropped (kr[o^]pt); p. pr. &
vb. n. Cropping.]
1. To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to
browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.
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I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a
tender one. --Ezek. xvii.
22.
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2. Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.
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Death . . . .crops the growing boys. --Creech.
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3. To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.
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4. to cut off an unnecessary portion at the edges; -- of
photographs and other two-dimensional images; as, to crop
her photograph up to the shoulders.
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Catch-cropping
(gcide) | Catch crop \Catch crop\
Any crop grown between the rows of another crop or
intermediate between two crops in ordinary rotation in point
of time. -- Catch"-crop`ping, n.
Radishes . . . are often grown as a catch crop with
other vegetables. --L. H.
Bailey.
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Cropping
(gcide) | Intercrop \In"ter*crop`\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. -cropped;
p. pr. & vb. n. -cropping.] (Agric.)
To cultivate by planting simultaneous crops in alternate
rows; as, to intercrop an orchard. Also, to use for catch
crops at seasons when the ground is not covered by crops of
the regular rotation.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]Crop \Crop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cropped (kr[o^]pt); p. pr. &
vb. n. Cropping.]
1. To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to
browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.
[1913 Webster]
I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a
tender one. --Ezek. xvii.
22.
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2. Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.
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Death . . . .crops the growing boys. --Creech.
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3. To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.
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4. to cut off an unnecessary portion at the edges; -- of
photographs and other two-dimensional images; as, to crop
her photograph up to the shoulders.
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