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Definition of Cropped
1. Adjective. (of land or soil) used for growing crops. "Cropped soil"
Definition of Cropped
1. Verb. (past of ''crop'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cropped
1. crop [v] - See also: crop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cropped
Literary usage of Cropped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cyclopædia;: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.by Abraham Rees by Abraham Rees (1819)
"Land cropped with turnips, carrots, ... that the foil of England and Wales is
annually cropped with the following quantities of each kind of grain, &c. ..."
2. Incentives and Constraints in the Transformation of Punjab Agriculture by Anya McGuirk, Yair Mundlak (1991)
"The increase in total area sown (gross cropped area) has been far more ...
Over the sample period, total gross cropped area in Punjab increased by 1.9 ..."
3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India. by William Wilson Hunter, Great Britain India Office (1908)
"A rise in the area producing barley and gram points to an increase in the area
double cropped. Very few loans are taken under the Land Improvement Loans Act ..."
4. The Works of Virgil by Virgil (1891)
"... and maddened with sudden rage, Proserpina had not yet cropped the yellow hair
from the crown of her head, and condemned her to Stygian Pluto. ..."
5. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, by John Gardner Wilkinson (1841)
"It was cropped a little below the ear ** with a toothed sickle, and carried to
the threshing floor in wicker baskets upon asses tt, or in rope tt nets, ..."
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