crop-eared
Americanadjective
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having the ears cropped.
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having the hair cropped short, so that the ears are conspicuous.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of crop-eared
First recorded in 1520–30
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The joint efforts of all New York S. P. C. A.'s were rewarded in the Shonk-Thompson Act, which declares illegal the possession or exhibition in New York State of crop-eared dogs.
From Time Magazine Archive
But crop-eared you were and crop-eared you are; one of Shaftesbury's brisk boys, my lord!
From Shrewsbury A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman
A schoolboy wrote to Scott at this time, "Oh, Sir Walter, how could you take the lady from the gallant Cavalier, and give her to the crop-eared Covenanter?"
From Old Mortality, Volume 1. by Sir Walter Scott
If pedants be damned for whipping poor little innocent wretches their scholars, he is, upon my honour, by this time fixed within Ixion's wheel, lashing the crop-eared, bobtailed cur that gives it motion.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Peter Anthony Motteux
A fat, crop-eared cat had taken up her position beside him.
From A Desperate Character and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
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