crop-eared

American  

[krop-eerd] / ˈkrɒpˌɪərd /

adjective

1. having the ears cropped.

2. having the hair cropped short, so that the ears are conspicuous.

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crop-eared British  

adjective

1. having the ears or hair cut short

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Etymology

Origin of crop-eared

First recorded in 1520–30

Example Sentences

The alaund, a big, crop-eared dog, is in the 15th-century shield of John Woode of Kent, and “kenets,” or little tracking dogs, in a 13th-century coat of Kenet.

From Project Gutenberg

Unless at home he had had an early introduction to stable and kennel management, that sort of learning could not be acquired in after-life; his love for his “crop-eared roan,” the descriptions in so many places of his devotion to horses and hounds, he knows them all by name. 

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"Crop-eared knaves, my lord, half of them, and I one!" he cried, as we came to a halt a little within the door, to await his pleasure--I with shaking knees and sinking heart.

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But crop-eared you were and crop-eared you are; one of Shaftesbury's brisk boys, my lord!

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He was a dirty white, ugly, undershot, crop-eared little brute, with a tail like a shaving-brush.

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