cropper
a person who cultivates land for its owner in return for part of the crop; sharecropper.
a plant that furnishes a crop.
a cloth-shearing machine.
Idioms about cropper
come a cropper, Informal.
to fail; be struck by some misfortune: His big deal came a cropper.
to fall headlong, especially from a horse.
Origin of cropper
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How to use cropper in a sentence
And, yes, we went out with the harriers; I had never sat a horse when he jumped anything before, and I came a couple of croppers.
Dr. Jolliffe's Boys | Lewis HoughThey were small, hardy animals, of a breed between Galloway and Exmoor, and were known as "heath-croppers" here.
Return of the Native | Thomas HardyAt this moment one of the heath-croppers feeding in the outer shadows was audibly shaking off the clog attached to its foot.
Return of the Native | Thomas HardyShe was full of reminiscences of former "croppers" in the lives of the various members of her family.
Three Margarets | Laura E. RichardsThe illustration shows one of the spiral croppers in the upper part of the machine in Fig. 41.
The Jute Industry: From Seed to Finished Cloth | T. Woodhouse and P. Kilgour
British Dictionary definitions for cropper
/ (ˈkrɒpə) /
a person who cultivates or harvests a crop
a cutting machine for removing the heads from castings and ingots
a guillotine for cutting lengths of bar or strip
a machine for shearing the nap from cloth
a plant or breed of plant that will produce a certain kind of crop under specified conditions: a poor cropper on light land
(often capital) a variety of domestic pigeon with a puffed-out crop
come a cropper informal
to fall heavily
to fail completely
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