aftercrop

aftercrop

English

Alternative forms

• after-crop

Etymology

From after- +‎ crop.

Noun

aftercrop (plural aftercrops)

1. A second crop in the same year.
   • 1612, Henry Peacham, Minerva Britanna or A Garden of Heroical Devises, London, “Adhuc mea messis in herba,” p. 150,

     No question but you grieued inward much,

     As doth the Miser, in a backward yeare:

     When others reape, to see your harvest such,

     And all your hopes, but in their blade appeare:

     Ladie, let henceforth nought disease your rest,

     For after-crops doe sometime prooue the best.

   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 9, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume IV, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, OCLC 316121541, page 368:

     […] a new contrivance for cutting cabbages, in such a manner as would secure the stock against the rotting rain, and enable it to produce a plenteous after-crop of delicious sprouts.

   • 1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “Chapter the Seventeenth”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, OCLC 1109979921, page 110:

     […] the entertainment began as soon as might be; Mr. Codlin having the responsibility of deciding on its length and of protracting or expediting the time for the hero’s final triumph over the enemy of mankind, according as he judged that the after-crop of halfpence would be plentiful or scant.

   • 1913, Oliver Onions, The Debit Account, New York: George H. Doran, Part 1, Chapter 3, pp. 42-43,

     Her glow and vitality had always put poor Kitty’s skimpiness completely into the shade, and what ailed her now was that wistful longing of the victress to be magnanimous that is the uneasy aftercrop of triumph.

   • 2011, Takumi Kondo and Hong Park, “Sustainable agricultural development in Asia and study partnerships” in Mitsuru Ōsaki et al. (eds.), Designing Our Future, Tokyo: United Nations University Press, p. 400,

     […] the upgraded water channel has been effective in replacing wheat, the traditional aftercrop of rice, with vegetables, which have an increasing market demand.

Translations

second crop in the same year

French: arrière-foin (fr) m, regain (fr) m, seconde récolte f

See also

• aftergrass

Anagrams

• prefactor