cropper
One who harvests
A cropper is a sharecropper—a farmer who works land belonging to someone else in exchange for a portion of the crop.
The word appears most often in the phrase come a cropper, meaning to fall heavily or fail badly: The project came a cropper when funding dried up.
This idiom likely derives from a horse falling "neck and crop"—that is, completely.
Descend under gravity
- failureLack of success
- stumbleLose footing momentarily
- tumbleUncontrolled rolling descent
- setbackReverse in progress
mishap · blunder · disaster · downfall · collapse · flop · fiasco · spill
One who rents property
- agricultureCultivation of land, livestock
- tillerBoat steering lever
- plowTool for turning soil
- sowImplant in earth
cultivate · husbandry · harvesting · grain · livestock · smallholder · peasant · yeoman
Cutting crops for collection
- threshingExtracting grain from stalks
- combineMerge, or harvesting machine
- yieldProduce or relinquish
- bountyReward for capture
gleaning · autumn · picker · produce · grain · cotton · tobacco · seasonal
Change an object's dimensions
- trimRemove unwanted edges
- frameSupporting outer structure
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
- boundaryLine marking a limit
selection · reframe · thumbnail · photoshop · canvas · proportion · adjustment · transform
fall
Descend under gravity
setback · mishap · blunder · disaster · downfall · collapse · flop · fiasco · spill · pratfall
tenant
One who rents property
- agricultureCultivation of land, livestock
- tillerBoat steering lever
- plowTool for turning soil
sow · cultivate · husbandry · harvesting · grain · livestock · smallholder · peasant · yeoman · crofter
reaping
Cutting crops for collection
bounty · gleaning · autumn · picker · produce · grain · cotton · tobacco · seasonal · bumper
resize
Change an object's dimensions
- trimRemove unwanted edges
- frameSupporting outer structure
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
boundary · selection · reframe · thumbnail · photoshop · canvas · proportion · adjustment · transform · recompose
cropperlandowner
One possessing real estate
landlord · landholder · plantation owner · estate owner · landed gentry
croppersuccess
Favorable outcome attained
victory · triumph · win · accomplishment · achievement
- cropping upAppearing unexpectedly, repeatedly
- cropped upAppeared unexpectedly
- cropped outRemoved by trimming edges
- cropped pantsTrousers cut above ankle
- cropped jeansDenim cut short below knee
- cropped hairVery short hairstyle
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