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cropt

[ kropt ]

/ krɒpt /

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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Example sentences from the Web for cropt

The Oxford Dictionary quotes Lamb, 'a notched and cropt scrivener'.
Society for Pure English, Tract 5|Society for Pure English
By the hundred and the thousand, men's lives are cropt; cast like brands into the burning.
The French Revolution|Thomas Carlyle
It is an ever fading and ever green tree, and the more it is lopped and cropt, the more it grows and expands itself.
The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, vol. 3 (of 4) part 2 (of 2)|Valmiki
Time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
Familiar Quotations|John Bartlett

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

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