Obs. [Cf. CROP sb. 21, v. 7.] An ear that has been cropped; hence, a crop-eared animal or person.
1596. Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., II. iii. 72. What Horse? a Roane, a crop eare, is it not.
1618. Rowlands, Sacred Mem., 49. He made a crop-eare of the High-Priests man.
1694. Lond. Gaz., No. 3014/4. A little … Grayhound bitch, with crop Ears.
1702. Vanbrugh, False Friend, III. ii. See that crop-ear there, that vermin, that wants to eat at a table would set his master’s mouth a-watering!
