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Crop, Croip, Cropt, n. Also: crope, croipe. [ME. crop(pe, crope, OE. crop, cropp-]

1. The top, head, or highest part, esp. of a tree or plant.(a) c1420 Wynt. iv. 354.
This Creses … thoucht he Wes in a crope set off a tre Ib. v. 153.
The crope thare off that palme tre, That datys bare in gret plente c1450-2 Howlat 408.
Ane [scheld] in the crope hiegh, as cheif I beheld Ib. 612.
All-ther hieast in the crope four helmes full faire a1500 Henr. Fab. 1728.
Ane swallow … On that hawthorne hie in the crope [v.r. croip] sittand c1515 Asl. MS. I. 159/1.
In Ynd ar treis so hie that men may nocht schute to thair crope a1568 Bann. MS 211 b.
The lawest treis hes cropis thocht thay be small 1590 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 156.
For … breking of the cropis of the treis, and dinging doune of the fruit of the same(b) c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 20.
The birdis sang upon the tender croppis 1513 Doug. i. iii. 91.
Ourslidand lychtly the croppis of the wallis [= waves] Ib. iii. x. 46; etc.
The byg akis streking in the ayr thar croppys 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. xlii.
Mure cokis and hennis, quhilk etis nocht bot seid, or croppis of hadder 1549 Compl. 121/23.
Alexander gart his sodiours pul doune the crops of the green treis 1552 Reg. Great S. 152/1.
Cum lie crop et bark ejusdem foreste [de Falkland] c1590 J. Stewart 137 § 6.
The bussie bies … blythlie buming on the flurist crops 1661 Elgin Rec. II. 294.
To … tak thrie handfulls of the crops of the heather and cast it in the chyld's face

b. fig. The highest manifestation or development of something; freq. crop and rute. a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 1122.
Off my worschip thou art baith crop and rute c1500-c1512 Dunb. viii. 24.
The crop of curage, the strength of armes in stour 1513 Doug. xii. x. 116.
Scho was … Baith crop, and ruyte, and hed of sik myscheif 15.. Clar. v. 1939.
Scho that wes of bewtie crope and rute 1560 Rolland Seven S. 4009.
Crop of curstnes, … Rute of wanreule 1567 G. Ball. 104.
The crop and rute of pryde and tyrannie

c. Crop and rute or grain, wholly, completely. Ib. lxvi. 99.
The formest hoip ȝit that I have … Is in ȝour Grace, both crop and grayne c1650 Spalding I. 77. Ib. 129.
To root out the bischopis of bothe kingdomes cropt and root

2. The crop or produce of land.(a) c1420 Wynt. i. 546.
Desert landys … Till corne or crope that na man teyllys a1500 Henr. Fab. 2730.
The pure husband [has] richt nocht Bot croip and calf vpoun ane clout of land 1558 Reg. Cupar A. II. 268.
[He] sall ere … Robertsonis land for this instant crope 1565 Rec. Earld. Orkney 275.
In that caice it salbe lesum to me to intromet with the said place under crope 1592 Acts III. 572/1.
That all … quha wer … dispossessit of thair landis … suld be … repossessit fra the croip and proffite of the ȝeir(b) 1456 Exch. R. VI. 218.
De vj celdris frumenti … de croppo anni presentis 1478 Acta Aud. 67/2.
To pruf the crop and proffit of the sawing of the landis 1539 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 94.
Ane … decreitt aganis ane Walter Scott for v furlotts quheitt for the crop of the mylne land 1569 Reg. Privy C. I. 676.
Peciabill possessioun of the landis and stedingis of Cullard and Conege, under crop as it is(c) 1593 Edinb. Test. XXV. 128.
All & haill his gudis & geir, … corne cropt, insycht, sowmes of moneth [etc.] 1596 Frasers of Philorth 248.
Intrometting with the fermis off the said cropt 1620 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. II. 297.
To … occupie the said aucht oxingait lands for winning of the cropt 1652 Peebles B. Rec. II. 5.
The said cropt is lykelie to be renderit unproffitable to the awneres 1662 Irvine Mun. II. 88.
He sawing the cropt thereof upon the ground the said yeir 1687 Corshill Baron Ct. 176.
Ane cott maill endew be him for this last cropt separat from the ground 1720 Glasgow B. Rec. IV. 93.
The loss of the cropt [being computed] to fyve bolls ane acker

b. Coupled with ȝeir as an inclusive date. 1588 Exch. R. XXI. 321.
The fermes, caynis, customes, and deweties of the croip and yeir of God [1587] 1608 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 290.
Taking of the custom of the brig the crop and yeir of God j^m vj^c sevin yeiris 1641 Acts V. 518/2.
It sall not be lesume … to crave the rentis of the foirsaid castle for the cropte and yeir … preceiding 1659 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 427.
The lands are sett for nyntin yeares and croptis 1724 Stirling B. Rec. II. 181.
To retrocess and assign M^r Brisbane to his local stipend for and after cropt and year 1724

3. The crop of a fowl; the stomach. c1420 Wynt. viii. 1777.
[He became] Alsa kobbyd in his crope, As he had ettyn ane attyrcope c1500 Rowll Cursing 178 (B).
Thay salbe revin be the throttis For cutting of tha fowlis croppis