crop-ear

noun

A person or animal (often a horse) whose ears are cropped.

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nouncrop-ear (plural crop-ears)

plural crop-ears

  1. A person or animal (often a horse) whose ears are cropped.

    "Well, horse and away!" said the patron, "so soon as you have got your riding livery in trim. You may ride the black crop-ear —and hark ye, I'll make you a present of him to boot."

    1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC
Cite this entry
APA

crop-ear. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crop-ear

MLA

“crop-ear.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crop-ear. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “crop-ear,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crop-ear.

Source: crop-ear on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.