crop, cropland,, come [get] a cropper

1. KANSANS ARE UNALARMED BY VANISHING U.S. CROPLAND

   ...losing about three million acres of its cropland every year to development and that the...the country's 540 million acres of cropland and that 60 million acres of that land...from farmers in any attempt to preserve cropland. ''Farmers don't like land-use...View free preview
   June 25, 1981 - By DOUGLAS E. KNEELAND, Special to the New York Times (NYT) - U.S. - News - 1090 words

2. Report Warns Nation Of a Loss of Cropland

   About 39 square miles of cropland is being lost in the United States each day to soil erosion and...conserve vanishing resources. The report said that 26 square miles of cropland was lost each day to soil erosion and 340 acres an hour was lost...View free preview

Investors in the Woodford Equity Income Fund have started running for the exit. Its value shrank by £560m in May alone

ECONOMIST.COM
Trouble at one of Britain's best-known funds
Neil Woodford, star fund-manager, comes a cropper

crop (PLANT) Show phonetics

noun
1 [C] (the total amount gathered of) a plant such as a grain, fruit or vegetable grown in large amounts:
The main crops grown for export are coffee and rice.
a bumper (= very good) potato crop

2 [C usually singular] INFORMAL a group of people or things with something in common, that exist at a particular time:
The judges will select the best from this year's crop of first novels.

German groups look for the next crop of engineers in kindergarten

crop Show phonetics
verb -pp-
1 [I usually + adverb or preposition] If a plant crops, it produces fruit, flowers, etc:
The carrots have cropped (= grown) well this year.

2 [T usually passive] to grow crops on land:
The land is intensively-cropped.

Come a cropper

Meaning
Fall over or fail at some venture.
By the time John C. Hotten published his A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words in 1859, the phrase has come to refer to any failure rather than just the specific failure to stay on a horse:

"Cropper, 'to go a cropper', or 'to come a cropper', i.e., to fail badly."

crop

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━━ n. 作物, 収穫［産出］物; （一地方・一季節の）全産出［収穫］高; たくさん, 集り, 続出; （鳥の）そのう; （乗馬用）むち; むちの柄; （なめし皮の）一枚（全部）; （家畜の耳を切取ってつける）耳じるし; 短く刈り込んだ頭髪, （頭髪の）刈込み; （岩石・鉱床などの）露頭.
━━ vt. （-pp-） （土地に）植付ける ((with)); （短く）刈込む; 収穫する; （…の縁［先端］を）切り落とす; （馬の）耳の端を切取る; （動物が草の先を）食い取る.
━━ vi. ((副詞（句）を伴って)) （作物が）できる; （鉱床が）露出する ((out)); （不意に）現れる ((out, up)); （羊・鳥などが）芽を食いとる.
crop circle　＝corn circle.
crop dusting [spraying]　（飛行機などによる）農薬散布.
crop insurance　農産物［収穫］保険.
cropped　━━ a. 短く切った.
crop・per　━━ n. 農夫, 小作人; 刈込み機; 作物 (a good ～per よくできる作物）; 〔話〕 墜落; 落馬; 大失敗.
come [get] a cropper　〔話〕 墜落［落馬，大失敗］する.
crop rotation　【農】輪作.