croppe

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English cropp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body; lump; bunch; crop”).

Noun

croppe (plural croppes)

  1. 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,
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants
  • English: crop
  • Scots: crap, crop, croip, cropt, croup, croop
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