"cropping" meaning in English

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      "word": "autocropping"
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      "word": "double cropping"
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      "word": "monocropping"
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      "word": "sharecropping"
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      "word": "trap cropping"
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          "text": "The vet was regularly called upon to perform ear croppings.",
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        "The act by which something is cut short or truncated."
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        "The growing of crops."
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        "(agriculture) The growing of crops."
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          "ref": "1905, Waldemar Lindgren, The Copper Deposits of the Clifton-Morenci District, Arizona, page 207:",
          "text": "Their croppings are either entirely barren or contain only a moderate amount of copper, but much richer ore is ordinarily found just above the chalcocite zone.",
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          "ref": "1912, John Mason Boutwell, Lester Hood Woolsey, Geology and ore deposits of the Park City district, Utah, page 121:",
          "text": "The cropping of the Quincy ore-bearing bed, the equivalent of the Daly West bed, is stated to have been found at the east end of the present mine and just below the present wagon road.",
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        "An outcrop that is mined for the ore it contains."
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        "(mining) An outcrop that is mined for the ore it contains."
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      "word": "double cropping"
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    {
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    {
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    {
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    {
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        "The act by which something is cut short or truncated."
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        "(agriculture) The growing of crops."
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        "(mining) An outcrop that is mined for the ore it contains."
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