croppe
Middle English
Alternative forms
- crop, crope, croupe
Etymology
From Old English cropp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body; lump; bunch; crop”).
Noun
croppe (plural croppes)
- crop, vegetation
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 5-6.
- The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
- Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 5-6.
Descendants
- English: crop
- Scots: crap, crop, croip, cropt, croup, croop