cropping

About 1.98 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb present participle and gerund of crop
2. noun The act by which something is cut short or truncated.

   The vet was regularly called upon to perform ear croppings.

3. noun The growing of crops.
4. noun An outcrop that is mined for the ore it contains.

Similar words

close-cropped clipped docked lopped lopped off planted pruned clipping snip cut

Often followed by

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