It is an abundant cropper, sometimes attaining on low-lying soils 13 ft.
The word is said to mean "cropper" or "trimmer," from the animal's habit of feeding on the branches of trees.
My wife's bike was stolen last november when someone used a bolt cropper to snip through a hefty braided cable.
Lushington, T.Fowell Buxton, James Cropper, Daniel O'Connell and others, in which they declared their deliberate judgment that "its precepts were delusive," and "its real effects of the most dangerous nature."
Many a big guy on the opposing side have come a cropper thinking Peter was easy meat.