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

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