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cropper 1. a. a cutting machine for removing the heads from castings and ingots b. a guillotine for cutting lengths of bar or strip 2. a machine for shearing the nap from cloth 3. a variety of domestic pigeon with a puffed-out crop How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Then he remembered the accounts of Berande, and the cropper that was coming, and scowled. "Well, well: it's a pity she didn't go back before Beaufort's cropper," he repeated. 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. |
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