Cropper

Full definition of cropper

Noun

1. a fall, a tumble; see come a cropper
• 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 185:But to myself I thought: ‘Considering that for eight whole years I sat on the front bench as top of the class while he drifted about somewhere in the middle, he can hardly fail to nourish a wish, left over from his schooldays, that some day or other I may come a complete cropper.’

a bird's crop

Noun

1. a breed of domestic pigeon with large crop

an agricultural crop

Noun

1. a person who nurtures and gathers a crop
2. a variety of plant producing a good harvestThat potato I grew last year was a good cropper.
3. A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.