▪ I. aftercrop
(ˈɑːftəkrɒp, æ-)
[after- 6.]
A later crop after the principal one; a second crop. Also fig.
| 1562 J. Wiclif in Richm. Wills & Invent. (1853) 160 My lease and intrest of the aftercroppe of St. Nycolas feld. 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong., Regain, foin derriére saison, after croppe of haye. 1616 Surflet & Markham Countrey Farme 112 With Autumne Hay, or the after-crop. 1740 Cibber Apol. Life xiv. 268 This unexpected After⁓crop of Cato, largely supplied to us, those Deficiencies. 1751 Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) IV. xciv. 142 A plenteous after-crop of delicious sprouts. 1789 Cowper Let. 12 Aug. (1824) II. 195 We are now gathering from our meadows, not hay, but muck..that the after⁓crop may have leave to grow. 1831 W. Howitt Bk. of Seasons 338 Sowing wheat upon the fallows, also after crops of tares, clover, early peas. |
▪ II. ˈaftercrop, v. rare.
[f. prec. after crop v.]
To take a second crop.
| 1580 Tusser Husb. xviii. 20 Few after-crop much, but noddies and such. |