cropped, ppl. a.
(krɒpt)
Also cropt.
[f. crop v. and n. + -ed.]
1. Cut off; cut short; plucked, lopped, pruned.
| 1558 T. Phaer æneid. vi. (R.), Lothly croppid nose. 1623 Drummond of Hawthornden Flowers of Sion (R.), Like a crop'd rose that languishing doth fade. 1687 Lond. Gaz. No. 2289/7 A plain brown cropt Nag. 1856 R. W. Procter Barber's Shop xxi. (1883) 209 [They] shook their cropped heads in the faces of the dainty Cavaliers. |
2. Sowed or planted with crops.
| 1840 T. A. Trollope Summ. Brittany I. 189 The flat and richly cropped district of the marshes. |
3. Having a crop. Chiefly in comb., as full-cropped.
| 1486 Bk. St. Albans A vj b, Ye shall say yowre hawke is full goorged and not cropped. |
4. Comb. † cropped-eared = crop-eared 2.
| 1641–2 D. Lewis in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1721) IV. iii. I. 482 A company of prick-eared and cropt-eared Rascals. |
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▸ Of a garment: cut shorter than is usual. Cf. crop adj.
| [1951 Ironwood (Mich.) Daily Globe 17 Aug. 8/4 The very full, new skirts are worn with short-cropped jackets.] 1954 News Jrnl. (Mansfield, Ohio) 23 Feb. 20/1 Party coats are being shown in full-length styles and in tiny, cropped jackets. 1970 Vogue Jan. 37/1 Pillar box cotton jersey for the jeans..and cropped T-shirt. 1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 21 Dec. b16 We are continuing the..short cropped tops, which we're making even shorter. 1999 Daily Tel. 23 Sept. 5/2 Belts made from shells were slung around the hips of..cropped pants. |