Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A second crop in the same year.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A second crop or harvest in the same year.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
second crop in the sameyear .
Etymologies
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From after- + crop.
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Examples
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The next person that addressed himself to the chief was a gentleman of a very mathematical turn, who valued himself upon the improvements he had made in several domestic machines, and now presented the plan of a new contrivance for cutting cabbages, in such a manner as would secure the stock against the rotting rain, and enable it to produce a plenteous aftercrop of delicious sprouts.
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