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CROP (a word See also: English " See also: group "), the ingluvies, or pouched expansion of a See also: bird's oesophagus, in which the See also: food remains to undergo a preparatory See also: process of digestion before being passed into the true stomach
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From the meaning of " top " or " See also: head," as applied to a plant, herb or flower, comes the See also: common use of the word for the
more particular expressions are the " See also: white-crop," for such 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)
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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 geology, for the " outcrop " or appearance at the See also: surface of a vein or stratum and, particularly in tin mining, of the best See also: part of the ore produced after dressing
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A " 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
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From the verb " to crop," i.e. to take off the top of anything, comes " crop" meaning a closely cut head of 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 imitation of the French revolutionaries
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