A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1499-1549, 1650
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Crop, v. [ME. crop, croppe (a 1225), f. Crop n.]
1. tr. To pluck or cut the top or end from; to cut short.a1500 Henr. III. 151/27.
Cape cukmaid and crop the colleraige a1508 Kennedy Flyt. 393.
Cursit croapand craw, I sall ger crop thy tong c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxv. 8.
His bony beird wes kemmit and croppit 1549 Ayr Ct. & Council Bk. 20 Jan.
Ane ȝoung kow, … croppit on the far lug
2. To take or hold the crown of (the causeway).c1650 Spalding I. 192.
The covenanteris … returnis provdlie bak agane, and cropis the calsey couragiously c1650 Ib. II. 354.
For the ane factioun croppit the calsey … prydfullie and disdanefullie; the other factioun wes forsit to walk humelie
