croppe

Middle English

Alternative forms

• crop, crope, croupe

Etymology

From Old English cropp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body; lump; bunch; crop”).

Noun

croppe (plural croppes)

1. crop, vegetation
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 5-6.

     The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
     Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,

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Descendants

• English: crop
• Scots: crap, crop, croip, cropt, croup, croop