Cropper
[krop-er] /ˈkrɒp ər/
noun
1.
a person or thing that .
2.
a person who raises a .
3.
a person who cultivates land for its owner in return for part of the crop; .
4.
a plant that furnishes a crop.
5.
a cloth-shearing machine.
Idioms
6.
come a cropper, Informal.
/ˈkrɒpə/
noun
1.
a person who cultivates or harvests a crop
2.
3.
a machine for shearing the nap from cloth
4.
a plant or breed of plant that will produce a certain kind of crop under specified conditions: a poor cropper on light land
5.
(often capital) a variety of domestic pigeon with a puffed-out crop
6.
(informal) come a cropper
Related Terms
come a cropper
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