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noun

Cropper n.

One that crops.

A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter.

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

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

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cropper" Quotes from Famous Books

... a billet at Coxon & Woodhouse's, of Draper's Gardens, but they were let in early in the spring through the Venezuelan loan, as no doubt you remember, and came a nasty cropper. I had been with them five years, and old Coxon gave me a ripping good testimonial when the smash came, but of course we clerks were all turned adrift, the twenty-seven of us. I tried here and tried there, but there were lots of ...

— Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

... the protests of the clerk, the money would be handed over and the shop released from levy. Unfortunately, after working the game for several years, Levine came a cropper by carelessly trying it on one of the same clerks that he had victimized some time before. The clerk, being of an unusually vindictive disposition, followed the matter up. Having first arrested the ...

— The Confessions of Artemas Quibble • Arthur Train

... lot of men, in my line and in others, have come a cropper in their careers, because of some woman. But I'm the first to come such a cropper on account of a woman with a white soul and the eyes of a child,—a woman I scarcely know, and who has no interest in me. But, to-night, I shall telegraph my resignation. Some saner man can take charge. There are ...

— Black Caesar's Clan • Albert Payson Terhune

... like a man in the last stages of consumption. Little life as Sundry Buyers showed, Nancy showed even less life. And these were bosuns!—bosuns of the fine American sailing-ship Elsinore! Never had any illusion of mine taken a more distressing cropper. ...

— The Mutiny of the Elsinore • Jack London

... bad cropper. I was thrown clear of the machine, but knew nothing until I waked up, feeling like a bag of broken bones. It was night, and I saw a huge fountain of red flame and a lot of dark figures like silhouettes ...

— Everyman's Land • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

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