CROPPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cropper mean? 

• CROPPER (noun)
  The noun CROPPER has 1 sense:

1. small farmers and tenants

  Familiarity information: CROPPER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROPPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small farmers and tenants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cropper; sharecrop farmer; sharecropper

Hypernyms ("cropper" is a kind of...):

agricultural laborer; agricultural labourer (a person who tills the soil for a living)

 Context examples 

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.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I’m not very good at telling a story, Dr. 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.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)