crop² n Cp OED ~ sb 6 'the top of anything material' Sc. The topmost part of a beach.
   1984 KELLAND 126 By this time [they] had disappeared over the crop of the beach to the west and it dawned on us then that the three men had bravely gone up to face the terror which we had run away from. ibid 158 [The fish] then were lugged up over the crop of the beach and bulked in waterhorses.

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