croppers
Those who harvest
Croppers is the plural of cropper, which has two main meanings.
A cropper is a sharecropper—a tenant farmer who pays rent with a share of the harvest.
The more common use today is in the idiom come a cropper, meaning to fall badly or fail spectacularly: The startup came a cropper when funding dried up.
Those who raise plants
- tillersSoil-turning implements or shoots
- growersThose who raise plants
- sharecroppersFarmers paying rent in crops
- plantersVessels for cultivating vegetation
sowers · husbandmen · agrarians · smallholders · tenant farmers · peasants · homesteaders · yeomen
Descend under gravity
- tumbleUncontrolled rolling descent
- stumbleLose footing momentarily
- disasterSudden ruinous event
- setbackReverse in progress
fiasco · collapse · downfall · misfortune · debacle · flop · pratfall · spill
Species grown together beneficially
- cerealsEdible cultivated grasses
- legumesEdible pod-bearing plants
- brassicasMustard family vegetables
- root vegetablesEdible underground plant parts
Merge, or harvesting machine
- thresherGrain-stalk separation device
- mowerGrass-cutting machine
- balerBundle-making farm machine
- pickerOne who gathers
stripper · header · swather · cotton picker · corn picker
cultivators
Those who raise plants
- tillersSoil-turning implements or shoots
- growersThose who raise plants
- sharecroppersFarmers paying rent in crops
planters · sowers · husbandmen · agrarians · smallholders · tenant farmers · peasants · homesteaders · yeomen · grangers
fall
Descend under gravity
setback · fiasco · collapse · downfall · misfortune · debacle · flop · pratfall · spill · header
companion plants
Species grown together beneficially
combine
Merge, or harvesting machine
picker · stripper · header · swather · cotton picker · corn picker
- rural folkpeasantry, countryfolk, farmers, farmhands, farm workers
- tobacco farmingtobacco leaf, tobacco leaves, tobacco fields, tobacco field, tobacco barn
croppersranchers
Livestock farm operators
herders · stockmen · pastoralists · cattlemen · shepherds
cropperslandowners
Holders of real property
landlords · plantation owners · freeholders · proprietors · landed gentry
- cropped upAppeared unexpectedly
- cropped outRemoved by trimming edges
- cropped pantsTrousers cut above ankle
- cropped jeansDenim cut short below knee
- cropped hairVery short hairstyle
- cropped hoodieHooded top ending above waist