Cropping is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CROPPING in dictionary:

VERB:
• CROP, to cut off short
• (of an animal) bite off and eat the tops of (plants)
• cut the edges of (a photograph) in order to produce a better picture or to fit a given space
• harvest (plants or their produce) from a particular area
• sow or plant (land) with plants that will produce food or fodder, especially on a large commercial scale
• (of land or a plant) yield a harvest of plants or produce
• cut (something, especially a person's hair) very short
NOUN:
• a cultivated plant that is grown on a large scale commercially, especially a cereal, fruit, or vegetable
• an amount of produce harvested at one time
• the total number of young farm animals born in a particular year on one farm
• a group or amount of related people or things appearing or occurring at one time
• a hairstyle in which the hair is cut very short
• an organ resembling a pouch in an insect or earthworm.
• the entire tanned hide of an animal.
• an abundance of something, especially a person's hair
• a pouch in a bird's gullet where food is stored or prepared for digestion
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• present participle of crop

Words related to CROPPING

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Words that contain CROPPING

croppings16 outcropping18 monocropping21 outcroppings19 overcropping22 intercropping20 sharecropping23 sharecroppings24

How to use CROPPING in a sentence

• I think I see plainly the cropping out of the original rock on which his own finer stratum was laid.
• These proving ineffectual, the Puritans passed laws which authorized the cropping of the ears, boring the tongues with hot irons, and hanging on the gibbet offending Quakers.
• The country passed over during the day was an open plain of light sandy loam, interspersed with bare granite rocks, cropping out at intervals of a few miles.
• He ate slowly, for he punctuated his cropping of the grass with glances towards the mountains.
• I find that form of impatience cropping up everywhere.
• Next the cows appeared, quietly grazing near by, with a pleasant home look, and the goats and colts were not far off, cropping the grass.
• We came upon his horse, quietly cropping the plants that grew at the foot of the cliff.
• The cultivator must use discretion in cropping vacant ground.
• In the cropping of a garden this plain procedure cannot be followed.
• There by the path side, cropping the dewy grass, was the trained pony.
• But it is plain that annual cropping without rotation, and without compensation by nature or art, must finally deprive the soil of the required elements.
• The country was changing, the trees growing thin and scattered and sandy areas were cropping up through the trail.
• He was mentally cropping dry and solid food contentedly, and, at the same time, he was a bit of a humourist.
• It is not merely the threatened cropping of the ears of every Quaker who sets foot ashore that is the difficulty.
• The cropping of the plants by stock, in the influence which it exerts upon the plants, is akin to that which arises from cutting them back frequently during the summer.
• The branches are woody in character, especially in the lower parts, which prevents close cropping by animals grazing on the plants.
• Four sleek cows filed out of the barn-yard when Pat opened the gate, and Ben drove them down the road to a distant pasture where the early grass awaited their eager cropping.
• During the four years he has occupied the land he has been cropping it, and the crops have invariably been sold before being reaped, and as soon as reaped carried off.
• He is cropping the ground most unmercifully, and is sending sacks of game off the premises every week.
• It would take a good many years to exhaust any ordinary soil by such a course of cropping.
• Certainly, no other system could produce all this cropping.
• Nothing has been said in this account of the public labour, of preparing the government ground annually for seed and cropping it, or of gathering the harvest when ripe.
• The deer were in a little glade, cropping the tender grass around a small spring.
• The mountain rose steeply behind it with overhanging rocks, cropping out through the forest here and there.
• I could hear rocks rolling over in their sleep on the bottom, and, when the water was still, a sound like the cropping of lily-pads away off on the river-margin.
• Suddenly a horse came up near me, cropping the brush.
• Inside it I caught a flying glimpse of the yellow pony quietly cropping among the tombs.

Similar words containing CROPP without suffix ing

croppy15 cropped14 cropper13 croppie13 croppers14 croppies14 croppings16 uncropped16 outcropped17 monocropped20 outcropping18 overcropped21 intercropped19 monocropping21 outcroppings19 overcropping22 sharecropped22 sharecropper21 intercropping20 sharecroppers22 sharecropping23 sharecroppings24

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