Crop
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.
(2): (n.) Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.
(3): (n.) The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree.
(4): (n.) That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest.
(5): (v. t.) Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.
(6): (v. i.) To yield harvest.
(7): (n.) A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial.
(8): (n.) A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.
(9): (n.) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
(10): (n.) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
(11): (v. t.) To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.
(12): (n.) Anything cut off or gathered.
(13): (v. t.) To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.
(14): (n.) Grain or other product of the field while standing.
King James Dictionary [2]
CROP, n. G., L. The crop of a fowl, and a crop of grain or hay are consistently the same word.
1. The first stomach of a fowl the craw. 2. The top or highest part of a thing the end. Not in use. 3. That which is gathered the corn, or fruits of the earth collected harvest. The word includes every species of fruit or produce, gathered for man or beast. 4. Corn and other cultivated plants while growing a popular use of the word. 5. Any thing cut off or gathered. 6. Hair cut close or short.
CROP,
1. To cut off the ends of any thing to eat off to pull off to pluck to mow to reap as, to crop flowers, trees, or grass. Man crops trees or plants with an instrument, or with his fingers a beast crops with his teeth. 2. To cut off prematurely to gather before it falls.
While force our youth, like fruits, untimely crops.
CROP, To yield harvest. Not in use.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
(1) As noun the translation of מראה , mur'āh ( Leviticus 1:16 ), which is the craw of a bird, especially of doves and pigeons, which had to be removed by the priest before he offered the birds as a burnt sacrifice.
Ezekiel 17:4 Ezekiel 17:22קטף ḳāṭaph
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [4]
( מֻרְאָה , Murah' , implying Fullfeeding ), the craw of a bird ( Leviticus 1:16). (See Sacrifice).
