Cropper

(n.) One that crops.

(n.) A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter.

(n.) A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.

(n.) A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse.

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• Well, well: it's a pity she didn't go back before Beaufort's cropper, he repeated. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Diggory withdrew with an emphatic step, Wildeve's eye passing over his form in withering derision, as if he were no more than a heath-cropper. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• They were small, hardy animals, of a breed between Galloway and Exmoor, and were known as heath-croppers here. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Yes, middling--except where the heath-croppers walk into it. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• They were about a score of the small wild ponies known as heath-croppers. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Two he'th-croppers down here, he said aloud. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• If you were, miss, he replied, in a week's time you would think no more of Wildeve than of one of those he'th-croppers that we see yond. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Our two heath-croppers are in the habit of straying into the meads, and tomorrow evening you can go and see if they are gone there. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• At this moment one of the heath-croppers feeding in the outer shadows was audibly shaking off the clog attached to its foot. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

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