cropper
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crop·per 1
(krŏp′ər)n.
A person who works land in return for a share of the yield; a sharecropper.
crop·per 2
(krŏp′ər)n.
1. A heavy fall; a tumble.
2. A disastrous failure; a fiasco.
[Perhaps from the phrase neck and crop, completely.]
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cropper
(ˈkrɒpə)n
1. (Agriculture) a person who cultivates or harvests a crop
2. (Mechanical Engineering)
a. a cutting machine for removing the heads from castings and ingots
b. a guillotine for cutting lengths of bar or strip
3. (Textiles) a machine for shearing the nap from cloth
4. (Agriculture) a plant or breed of plant that will produce a certain kind of crop under specified conditions: a poor cropper on light land.
5. (Breeds) (often capital) a variety of domestic pigeon with a puffed-out crop
6. come a cropper informal
a. to fall heavily
b. to fail completely
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crop•per
(ˈkrɒp ər)n.
1. one that crops.
2. a sharecropper.
3. a plant that furnishes a crop.
Idioms: come a cropper,
a. to fail decisively: His deal came a cropper.
b. to fall headlong.
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Noun | 1. | cropper - small farmers and tenants agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer - a person who tills the soil for a living |
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cropper
[ˈkrɒpəʳ] NCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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[ˈkrɒpər] nto come a cropper (= fall) → s'étaler (= fail) → se planter crop sprayer [ˈkrɒpspreɪər] n
(= device) → pulvérisateur m
(= plane) → avion-pulvérisateur mcrop spraying [ˈkrɒpspreɪɪŋ] n → pulvérisation f des culturescrop top n → petit top m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
cropper
n
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
cropper
[ˈkrɒpəʳ] n (fam) to come a cropper (fall badly) → fare un capitombolo; (fail completely) → fare fiascoCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995