Crossword clues for cropper
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cropper \Crop"per\ (kr?p"p?r), n.
One that crops.
A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter.
(Mech.) A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.
A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse. [Slang.]
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. a fall, a tumble; see come a cropper Etymology 2
n. a breed of domestic pigeon with large crop Etymology 3
n. 1 a person who nurtures and gathers a crop 2 a variety of plant producing a good harvest 3 A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.
WordNet
n. small farmers and tenants [syn: sharecropper, sharecrop farmer]
Wikipedia
Cropper may refer to:
- Cropper (surname)
- A piece of agricultural machinery used to mow grass or crop wheat
- Camp Cropper, a detention site near Baghdad
- Cropper, Kentucky
- An icon in Adobe Photoshop used to crop images on the program
- Cropper, a breed of fancy pigeon, including:
- Holle Cropper
- Norwich Cropper
- Ghent Cropper
- Old German Cropper
- Voorburg shield cropper
Cropper is an English surname.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Angela Cropper, United Nations official from Trinidad and Tobago
- Anna Cropper (1938–2007), British stage and television actress
- Anton Cropper, American television director and producer
- Dene Cropper (born 1983), English former professional footballer
- James Cropper (MP) (1823–1900), English Liberal politician
- James Cropper (priest) (died 1938), Anglican priest
- James Cropper (businessman) (born 1938), English businessman
- Jason Cropper (born 1971), American musician, guitarist for Weezer
- John Cropper (1797–1876), British philanthropist
- Linda Cropper, Australian television actress
- Peter Cropper (1945–2015), British violinist, leader of the Lindsay String Quartet
- Steve Cropper (born 1941), American guitarist, songwriter and producer
- William Cropper (1862–1889), English cricketer and footballer
Fictional characters:
- Hayley Cropper, in the UK soap opera Coronation Street
- Roy Cropper, in Coronation Street
Usage examples of "cropper".
Evaluation has been trying to decide whether the smaller herbivores on Bemus III are offspring of the big, mammoth-like croppers that Planet Certification thought were becoming extinct.
I tried to dissect a medium-sized herbivore, to see how similar the internal structure was to the cropper Planet Certification reported dissecting.
Horriston was once a bona fide doctor, but he came a cropper of some kind.
Often, too, he came a cropper on some of his more ambitious maneuvers.
When he did, he craned his neck out so far to be sure it was the kit that he almost came a cropper in the hedge.
If she came a cropper with this Lord Gaebril who had suddenly appeared in Caemlyn, it was no longer any concern of his.
In fact, to put it bluntly, she's come a cropper of some kind, and has got the wind up about it.
It was a humorous story, which poked fun at the nabob of merchandising who had come a cropper.
Before long the house developed a reputation as a place where you could reliably expect to come a cropper.
Earlier versions of this condensing-nebula origin of the Solar system, some dating back to 1755, had come a cropper over the question of angular momentum (which is a measure of all the turning motions such as rotation about an axis and revolution about a center of gravity).
He admits that he's been in business for himself twice and come a cropper, once when he tried to open a motor-repair shop on his own and once with a partner in breeding turkey chicks.
It's better to tumble off the bottom rung of a ladder than to come a cropper from the top.
Share croppers, small holders and farmers looking after their own plots of ground, peasants and craftsmen who work too hard to think and whose minds never range beyond a village horizon, busy only with that which brings in their daily bread, find abstract doctrines unintelligible.
I have to tell you that you, Henry Loxley Bird, and you, Halycon Arthur Marshall Cropper, need not say anything either now or when you are formally charged, but that what you do say will be taken down in writing and may be given in evidence.