crop-v; 3 Senses

Sense Number 1: cut or othewise remove pieces off of

Commentary:
NOTE: Includes metaphorical uses.

Examples:
Proserpina had not yet cropped the yellow hair from her head.
Crop the image to make it a square, 3x3 inches.
The sheep cropped the grass in our lawn.
You must crop the ever-budding herb.
Some dogs have their tails cropped because people think it looks better.

Mappings:
VerbNet: carve-21.2-2,braid-41.2.2
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: crop.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 4, 5, 6

Sense Number 2: prepare land for or yield crops

Examples:
This land crops well.
My soil will be cropped for potatoes this year.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2, 3

Sense Number 3: CROP UP/CROP OUT: appear suddenly (at the surface)

Commentary: Is: CROP UP, CROP OUT

Examples:
Some new reports cropped up so I couldn't come to the party.
After they fired the secretary, all sorts of problems cropped up.
A vein of ore cropped out.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NM
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
crop_up 1
crop_out 1