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aftercrop en · NOUN

Etymology

From after- + crop.

Meanings

1. A second crop in the same year.
   • […] a new contrivance for cutting cabbages, in such a manner as would secure the stock against the rotting rain, and enable it to produce a plenteous after-crop of delicious sprouts. 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 368, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
   • […] the entertainment began as soon as might be; Mr. Codlin having the responsibility of deciding on its length and of protracting or expediting the time for the hero’s final triumph over the enemy of mankind, according as he judged that the after-crop of halfpence would be plentiful or scant. 1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “Chapter the Seventeenth”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, →OCLC, page 110:
   • […] the upgraded water channel has been effective in replacing wheat, the traditional aftercrop of rice, with vegetables, which have an increasing market demand. 2011, Takumi Kondo, Hong Park, “Sustainable agricultural development in Asia and study partnerships”, in Mitsuru Ōsaki et al., editors, Designing Our Future, Tokyo: United Nations University Press, page 400:
   • No question but you grieued inward much, As doth the Miser, in a backward yeare: When others reape, to see your harvest such, And all your hopes, but in their blade appeare: Ladie, let henceforth nought disease your rest, For after-crops doe sometime prooue the best. 1612, Henry Peacham, “Adhuc mea messis in herba”, in Minerva Britanna or A Garden of Heroical Devises, London, page 150:
   • Her glow and vitality had always put poor Kitty’s skimpiness completely into the shade, and what ailed her now was that wistful longing of the victress to be magnanimous that is the uneasy aftercrop of triumph. 1913, Oliver Onions, The Debit Account, New York: George H. Doran, Part 1, Chapter 3, pp. 42-43:

Forms

Relateds

aftergrass

Translations (3)

fr regain (second crop in the same year) · fr arrière-foin (second crop in the same year) · fr seconde récolte (second crop in the same year)