cropper

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A person who works land in return for a share of the yield; a sharecropper.
2. n. A heavy fall; a tumble.
3. n. A disastrous failure; a fiasco.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A breed of pigeons with a large crop. See pouter.
2. n. A machine for facing cloth.
3. n. A powerful hand-tool for cutting off bolts or iron rods.
4. n. A plant which furnishes a crop: qualified by large or small, heavy or light, etc.
5. n. One who raises a crop or crops on shares; one who cultivates land for its owner in consideration of part of the crop.
6. n. A fall, as from horseback; especially, a fall in which the rider is thrown neck and crop over the horse's head; hence, failure in an undertaking.
7. n. A small bed-and-platen printing-press invented by George P. Gordon (1858) of New York, but named from the machinist (H. S. Cropper) who introduced it into Great Britain.

Wiktionary

1. n. a fall, a tumble; see come a cropper
2. n. a breed of domestic pigeon with large crop
3. n. a person who nurtures and gathers a crop
4. n. a variety of plant producing a good harvest
5. n. A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One that crops.
2. n. A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter.
3. n. (Mech.) A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.
4. n. Slang. A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. small farmers and tenants