crop: [OE] Old English cropp meant ‘bird’s craw’ and ‘rounded head of a plant’, and it was presumably the latter that gave rise to the word’s most familiar modern sense, ‘cultivated plant produce’, at some time in the 13th century. Its relatives in other Germanic languages, including German kropf and Dutch krop, are used for ‘bird’s craw’ but also for various bodily swellings in the throat and elsewhere, indicating the word’s underlying meaning is ‘round mass, lump’.
Its Germanic ancestor, *kruppō, was borrowed into Vulgar Latin as *cruppa, which made its way via Old French into English as croup ‘horse’s (round) rump’ [13], and as the derivative crupper [13]. Croupier [18] is based on French croupe, having originally meant ‘person who rides on the rump, behind the saddle’. The Germanic base *krup- ‘round mass, lump’ is also the ancestor of English group. => croup, croupier, crupper, group
crop (n.)
Old English cropp "bird's craw," also "head or top of a sprout or herb." The common notion is "protuberance." Cognate with Old High German kropf, Old Norse kroppr. Meaning "harvest product" is c. 1300, probably through the verbal meaning "cut off the top of a plant" (c. 1200).
crop (v.)
"cut off the top of a plant," c. 1200, from crop (n.). The general meaning of "to cut off" is mid-15c. Related: Cropped; cropping. Women's fashion crop top is attested from 1984.
例文
1. I let the horse drop his head to crop the spring grass.
私は馬に頭を下げて春の草をかじらせた。
2.Problems will crop up and hit you before you are ready.
準備ができていないと、問題が突然発生して打撃を与えます。
3.I decided to crop the picture just above the water line.
この写真の透かし以下の部分を切り取ることにしました。
4.Last year 400000 acres of land yielded a crop worth$1.75 billion.
昨年の40万エーカーの土地生産額は17億5000万ドルに達した。
5.The crop represents a tiny fraction of U.S.production.