cropper
noun
[ ˈkrɒpə ]
• a plant which yields a specified crop.
• "the white-fleshed varieties are the heaviest croppers"
• a machine or person that cuts or trims something.
• a person who raises a crop, especially as a sharecropper.
come a cropper
• fall heavily.
• "he came the most appalling cropper—I think he knocked himself out"
