cropt

[kropt]

verb

Archaic.

1. a simple past tense and past participle of crop.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cropt¹

Spelling variant of cropped ( def. )

Example Sentences

This dress, fitting tight to his shape, shewed to advantage the large but perfect symmetry of his person; while the dark brown hair, sprinkled here and there with the grey badge of declining years, cropt close around his temples; and the steeple-crowned hat peculiar to his sect and times, bespoke him, what he was, the friend of Cromwell — the roundhead governor of Antigua.

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Franz carefully observed the same procedure which the Spectre had observed to him, clipped his beard with the scissors, cropt away his hair, lathered his whole scalp, and the Ghost all the while sat steady as a wig-block.

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In other words, Jonson, discarding c and q, was with those who nowadays ask us to say Kikero, Kelt, Kæsar; and he seems also to be an advocate for such terminations as st or pt for ed in exprest, confest, profest, stopt, dropt, cropt, wherein he has a follower in Mr. Furnivall.

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It is herbaceous, sometimes wild, and sometimes cultivated; but always written about as though constituting herbage, and is on one occasion cropt by the horses of Achilles.

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And oft have I thy woodbines cropt:— While from my hand the sweet flowers dropt, I’ve thought,—I too must die!

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