riding crop

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riding crop

(Horse Training, Riding & Manège) a short whip with a thong at one end and a handle for opening gates at the other

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crop

(krɒp)

n., v. cropped, crop•ping. n.

1. the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered: the wheat crop.

2. the yield of such produce in one season.

3. the yield of any product in a season.

4. a group of persons or things appearing or occurring together: the new crop of freshmen.

5. the stock or handle of a whip.

6. a short riding whip consisting of a stock without a lash.

a. a pouch in the esophagus of many birds, in which food is held for later digestion or for regurgitation to nestlings.

b. a chamber in the foregut of some annelids and insects for holding and crushing food.

8. a mark produced by clipping the ears, as of cattle.

9. a close cutting of something, as the hair.

v.t.

10. to cut or bite off the top of (a plant, grass, etc.): sheep cropping the grass.

11. to cut off the ends or a part of: to crop the ears of a dog.

12. to cut short.

13. to trim (a photographic print or negative).

14. to cause to bear a crop.

v.i.

15. to yield a crop.

16. to feed by cropping or grazing.

17. crop out,

a. to rise to the surface of the ground: Veins of quartz crop out in the canyon walls.

b. to occur.

18. crop up, to appear, esp. suddenly or unexpectedly.

[before 900; Middle English, Old English: sprout, ear of corn, paunch, crown of a tree, c. Middle Dutch, Middle Low German kropp, Old High German kropf, Old Norse kroppr; compare croup²]

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Noun

riding crop - a short whip with a thong at the end and a handle for opening gates

hunting crop

whip - an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping

Translations

frustino scudiscio

riding crop

riding whip n → frustino

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