cropper

noun

1. a person or thing that crops.
2. a person who raises a crop.
3. a person who cultivates land for its owner in return for part of the crop; sharecropper.
4. a plant that furnishes a crop.
5. a cloth-shearing machine.

noun

1. a person who cultivates or harvests a crop
2. 1. a cutting machine for removing the heads from castings and ingots
   2. a guillotine for cutting lengths of bar or strip
3. a machine for shearing the nap from cloth
4. a plant or breed of plant that will produce a certain kind of crop under specified conditionsa poor cropper on light land
5. (often capital) a variety of domestic pigeon with a puffed-out crop
6. come a cropper informal
   1. to fall heavily
   2. to fail completely