(agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
(anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation; a craw.
(archaic or dialect) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
(architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
(mining) An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
(mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
A rocky outcrop.
A short haircut.
An entire oxhide.
An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
The act of cropping.
The lashing end of a whip.
The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
verb
(intransitive) To yield harvest.
(transitive) To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.
(transitive) To cause to bear a crop.
(transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
(transitive) To mow, reap or gather.
(transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
(transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
