cropt
Americanverb
Etymology
Origin of cropt
Spelling variant of cropped ( def. )
Example Sentences
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I suspect this copy has been a good deal cropt in the binding.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
A cruelly cropt copy, with a suspiciously ornamented title page.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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 Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Both to-day and yesterday we observed that the fields on each side of the road were planted with clumsy cropt trees, somewhat like fruit-trees.
From Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. by Sir Archibald Alison
In other words, it is a palpably cropt copy.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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