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Cropping vs Cropper - What's the difference?

cropping | cropper |

As nouns the difference between cropping and cropper

is that cropping is 1905, Waldemar Lindgren, The Copper Deposits of the Clifton-Morenci District, Arizona (page 207 while cropper is a fall, a tumble; see come a cropper.

As a verb cropping

is present participle of lang=en.

As a proper noun Cropper is

{{surname|A=An|English occupational|from=occupations}} for a cropper.

cropping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mining)
  • * 1905 , Waldemar Lindgren, The Copper Deposits of the Clifton-Morenci District, Arizona (page 207)
    • Their croppings are either entirely barren or contain only a moderate amount of copper, but much richer ore is ordinarily found just above the chalcocite zone.
  • * 1912 , John Mason Boutwell, ?Lester Hood Woolsey, Geology and ore deposits of the Park City district, Utah (page 121)
    • The cropping of the Quincy ore-bearing bed, the equivalent of the Daly West bed, is stated to have been found at the east end of the present mine and just below the present wagon road.

    cropper

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.’

    Etymology 2

    a bird's crop

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a breed of domestic pigeon with large crop

    • Etymology 3

    an agricultural crop

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a person who nurtures and gathers a crop
  • a variety of plant producing a good harvest
    • That potato I grew last year was a good cropper .
  • A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.