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cropt

[ kropt ]

/ krɒpt /

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verb Archaic.

a simple past tense and past participle of crop.

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Origin of cropt

Spelling variant of cropped

Words nearby cropt

crop milk, crop out, cropper, croppie, crop rotation, cropt, crop top, crop up, croquembouche, croquet, croquette

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How to use cropt in a sentence

Three cropt heads of hair on them, three frocks they wore, and three mantles wrapt around them.
The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga|Various
High Churchmen, who still call them Roundheads and Cropped-ears, go about rounder-headed and closer cropt than they ever went.
Plays and Puritans|Charles Kingsley
And what is cropt by day the night renews, Shedding refreshful stores of cooling dews.
The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales|Giraldus Cambrensis
Time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
Familiar Quotations|John Bartlett

In July 1685, ‘the men are ordered to have their ears cropt, and the women to be marked in their hand.’
History of Civilization in England, Vol. 3 of 3|Henry Thomas Buckle