Word: sharecropping
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: share
crop
ping
Definition: The system where a tenant farmer, especially in the southern United States, farms the land in exchange for a portion of the crops.
Morphemes:
Affix: share
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.
Affix: crop
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: The act of cropping; yield crops
Etymology Compounds: Affix: croppen
Language: enm
Decoded: croppen
Meaning: to cut, pluck and eat
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form uncountable nouns from verbs denoting the act of doing something, an action.