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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 502 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CROP (a word See also:common. in various forms, such as Germ. Kropf, to many See also:Teutonic See also:languages for a swelling, excrescence, See also:round See also:head or See also:top of anything; it appears also in Romanic languages derived from Teutonic, in Fr. as troupe, whence the See also:English " crupper "  ; and in Ital. groppo, whence See also:English " See also:group "), the ingluvies, or pouched expansion of a See also:bird's See also:oesophagus, in which the See also:food remains to undergo a preparatory See also:process of digestion before being passed into the true See also:stomach . From the meaning of " See also:top " or " See also:head," as applied to a plant, See also:herb or See also:flower, comes the See also:common use of the word for the more particular expressions are the " See also:white-See also:crop," for such See also:grain crops as See also:barley or See also:wheat, which whiten as they grow ripe; and " See also:green-crop " for such as roots or potatoes which do not, and also for those which are cut in a green See also:state, like See also:clover (see See also:AGRICULTURE) . Other uses, more or less technical, of the word are, in See also:leather-dressing, for the whole untrimmed hide; in See also:mining and See also:geology, for the " outcrop " or See also:appearance at the See also:surface of a vein or stratum and, particularly in See also:tin mining, of the best See also:part of the ore produced after dressing . A " See also:hunting-crop " is•a See also:short thick stock for a See also:whip, with a small leather See also:loop at one end, to which a thong. may be attached . From the verb " to crop," i.e. to take off the top of anything, comes " crop" meaning a closely cut head of See also:hair, found in the name " croppy " given to the Roundheads at the See also:time of the See also:Great See also:Rebellion, to the Catholics in See also:Ireland in 1688 by the See also:Orangemen, probably with reference to the priests' tonsures, and to the Irish rebels of 1798, who cut their hair short in See also:imitation of the See also:French revolutionaries .

End of Article: CROP (a word common. in various forms, such as Germ. Kropf, to many Teutonic languages for a swelling, excrescence, round head or top of anything; it appears also in Romanic languages derived from Teutonic, in Fr. as troupe, whence the English " crupper "
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