cropper

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: crop=per

CIDE DICTIONARY

cropper, n. 

•  One that crops.  [1913 Webster]
•  A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter.  [1913 Webster]
•  A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.  [1913 Webster]
•  A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cropper, n. a crop-producing plant of specified quality (a good cropper; a heavy cropper).

Idiom

come a cropper sl.
1 fall heavily.
2 fail badly.

THESAURUS

cropper

Bauer, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, breakdown, coffee-planter, collapse, collective farm worker, comedown, crash, crofter, culbute, cultivator, deflation, dirt farmer, dive, downfall, dry farmer, fall, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, flop, forced landing, gentleman farmer, granger, grower, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, header, husbandman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, muzhik, nose dive, peasant, peasant holder, picker, planter, plowboy, plowman, plunge, pratfall, raiser, rancher, ranchman, reaper, rustic, sharecropper, smash, sower, spill, sprawl, stumble, tailspin, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tiller, tree farmer, trip, truck farmer, tumble, yeoman

ROGET THESAURUS

cropper

Descent

N descent, descension, declension, declination, fall, falling, slump, drop, plunge, plummet, cadence, subsidence, collapse, lapse, downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch, cropper, culbute, titubation, stumble, fate of Icarus, avalanche, debacle, landslip, landslide, declivity, dip, hill, rappel, descending, descendent, decurrent, decursive, labent, deciduous, nodding to its fall, downhill, downwards, the bottom fell out.