crop-ear
English
Alternative forms
cropear
Noun
- A person or animal (often a horse) whose ears are cropped.
- 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
- "Well, horse and away!" said the patron, "so soon as you have got your riding livery in trim. You may ride the black crop-ear —and hark ye, I'll make you a present of him to boot."
References
- “crop-ear”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.