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,

Descendants

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

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