Crossword-Solution: CROPPER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cropper | n. | One that crops. |
| Cropper | n. | A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter. |
| Cropper | n. | A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth. |
| Cropper | n. | A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “CROPPER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Come a ___ (fall headlong). | 1 answer |
| PLANT yielding good crop | 1 answer |
| Share trailer | 1 answer |
| Tenant farmer | 1 answer |
| HEADLONG fall | 2 answers |
| Headlong fall: Colloq. | 2 answers |
| heavy fall | 2 answers |
| Sudden collapse | 3 answers |
| Barber? | 28 answers |
| Fall out | 68 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CROPPER (5)
And I have hired Joseph Dewberry, William Horsely, Ham Cropper, and George Sanders as my servants or managers (under me) thereof.
Samson’s horse put his foot in a hole, and the cropper they both got gave the band a long start, as it became a stern chase, and no heading off.
Watson, but it is like this with me: “I used to have a billet at Coxon & Woodhouse, of Drapers’ Gardens, but they were let in early in the spring through the Venezuelan loan, as no doubt you remember, and came a nasty cropper.
Lord Audley and the unknown knight struck each other fairly upon the helmet; but, while the stranger sat as firm and rigid as ever upon his charger, the Englishman was bent back to his horse's cropper by the weight of the blow, and had galloped half-way down the lists ere he could recover himself.
But how do you know how it's going to work--or whether it will work at all? We may come a cropper." "Bless my insurance policy!" exclaimed a man who was standing near the two lads who were conversing.
Quotes with CROPPER (3)
I am seeking to rescue the poor stockinger, the Luddite cropper, the “obsolete” hand-loom weaver, the “utopian” artisan, and even the deluded follower of Joanna Southcott, from the enormous condescension of posterity. Their crafts and traditions may have been dying. Their hostility to the new industrialism may have been backward-looking. Their communitarian ideals may have been fantasies. Their insurrectionary conspiracies may have been foolhardy. But they lived through these…
What did it all mean? He thought of his own life, the high hopes with which he had entered upon it, the limitations which his body forced upon him, his friendlessness, and the lack of affection which had surrounded his youth. He did not know that he had ever done anything but what seemed best to do, and what a cropper he had come! Other men, with no more advantages than he, succeeded, and others again, with many more, failed. It seemed pure chance. The rain fell alike upon th…
I tried the guitar, but it had two strings too many. It was just too complicated, man! Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players, another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, WP.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1955–2007).