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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
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†CROPT, n.

†1. Obs. Sc. form of Eng. crop, the season's yield.ne.Sc. 1769 I. F. Grant Old Highland Farm 1769–82 (1924) 166:
Ane acc^t. of what white oats I sold of Cropt 1769 payable Martinmas.Bnff. 1784 Trans. Bnffsh. Field Club (1891) 35:
Wednesday (Decr. 1st) to be observed as a day of thanksgiving for the plentiful cropt.Ags. 1740 A. Jervise Memorials of Ags. and Mearns (1885) II. 304:
My haill corns and cropt and other moveables.Lnk. 1718 Minutes J.P.s Lnk. (S.H.S. 1931) 186:
Tennants . . . are put to vast expences from . . . servants casting themselves out of service dureing the whole . . . of the summer season, to the great discouragement of industry and improvement of land, and frequently to the hazard of the cropt.

†2. Used along with year, term, etc. in giving a date.Sc. 1762 Nairne Peerage Evid. (1873) 96:
For this present cropt and year, and all subsequent cropts and years.Frf. 1730 Private Document (per Fif.¹):
For Cropt seventeen and thirty one years and subsequent Cropts the same shall be thirled to the Mill of Dun.Ayr. 1700 Corshill Baron Court Book in Arch. & Hist. Coll. Ayr. & Wgt. (1884) IV.:
14 Dec. His rent this last cropt and term of martimass.