cropt
Americanverb
Etymology
Origin of cropt
Spelling variant of cropped ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Of these two copies, one has the cuts coloured, and is very little cropt: the other has the cuts uncoloured, and is decidedly cropt.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
He then placed before me the Catholicon of 1469, by G. Zainer: a cropt, but clean and desirable copy.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
Yet I must notice a pretty little Aldine Petrarch of 1521, 12mo. bound with Sannazarius de partu Virginis, by the same printer, in 1527, 12mo.: in old stamped binding--but somewhat cropt.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
A cruelly cropt copy, with a suspiciously ornamented title page.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
Pride has a fall, they say: and I was proud— Proud as a thistle; and a donkey’s cropt The thistle’s prickly pride.
From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson
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