[AFTER- 6.] A later crop after the principal one; a second crop.

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1562.  J. Wiclif, in Richm. Wills & Invent. (1853), 160. My lease and intrest of the aftercroppe of St. Nycolas feld.

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1580.  Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong., Regain, foin derriére saison, after croppe of haye.

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1616.  Surflet & Markham, Countrey Farme, 112. With Autumne Hay, or the after-crop.

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1751.  Smollett, Per. Pickle (1779), IV. xciv. 142. A plenteous after-crop of delicious sprouts.

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