cropt

[ kropt ]

verb

, Archaic.

1. a simple past tense and past participle of crop.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cropt¹

Spelling variant of cropped ( def )

Example Sentences

Three cropt heads of hair on them, three frocks they wore, and three mantles wrapt around them.

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High Churchmen, who still call them Roundheads and Cropped-ears, go about rounder-headed and closer cropt than they ever went.

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And what is cropt by day the night renews, Shedding refreshful stores of cooling dews.

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Time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

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In July 1685, ‘the men are ordered to have their ears cropt, and the women to be marked in their hand.’

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