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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LOP, v.t. [Eng. flap. The primary sense is evidently to fall or fell, or to strike down, and I think it connected with flap.]
1. To cut off, as the top or extreme part of any thing; to shorten by cutting off the extremities; as, to lop a tree or its branches.
With branches lopp'd in wood, or mountain fell'd.
2. To cut off, as exuberances; to separate, as superfluous parts.
Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts.
3. to cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop the trees or saplings of a hedge.
4. To let fall; to flap; as, a horse lops his ears.
LOP, n. that which is cut from trees.
Else both body and lop will be of little value.
LOP, n. a flea. [Local.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body" [syn: discerp, sever, lop]
2: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English loppe Date: 14th century material cut away from a tree; especially parts discarded in lumbering II. transitive verb (lopped; lopping) Date: 1519 1. a. (1) to cut off branches or twigs from (2) to sever from a woody plant b. (1) archaic to cut off the head or limbs of (2) to cut from a person 2. a. to remove superfluous parts from b. to eliminate as unnecessary or undesirable — usually used with off III. intransitive verb (lopped; lopping) Etymology: perhaps imitative Date: 1578 to hang downward ; droop

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. v. & n. --v. (lopped, lopping) 1 tr. a (often foll. by off, away) cut or remove (a part or parts) from a whole, esp. branches from a tree. b remove branches from (a tree). 2 tr. (often foll. by off, away) remove (items) as superfluous. 3 intr. (foll. by at) make lopping strokes on (a tree etc.). --n. parts lopped off, esp. branches and twigs of trees. Phrases and idioms: lop and top (or crop) the trimmings of a tree. Derivatives: lopper n. Etymology: ME f. OE loppian (unrecorded): cf. obs. lip to prune 2. v. (lopped, lopping) 1 intr. & tr. hang limply. 2 intr. (foll. by about) slouch, dawdle; hang about. 3 intr. move with short bounds. 4 tr. (of an animal) let (the ears) hang. Phrases and idioms: lop-ears drooping ears. lop-eared (of an animal) having drooping ears. Derivatives: loppy adj. Etymology: rel. to LOB

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lop Lop, v. i. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lop Lop, v. t. To let hang down; as, to lop the head.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lop Lop, a. Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lop Lop, n. [AS. loppe.] A flea.[Obs.] --Cleveland.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lop Lop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Lopping.] [Prov. G. luppen, lubben,to cut, geld, or OD. luppen, D. lubben.] 1. To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to sho? -- by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches. ``With branches lopped, in wood or mountain felled.'' --Milton. Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts. --Pope. 2. To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lop Lop, n. That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree. --Shak. Mortimer.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(lops, lopping, lopped) • lop off 1. If you lop something off, you cut it away from what it was attached to, usually with a quick, strong stroke. Somebody lopped the heads off our tulips. ...men with axes, lopping off branches... His ponytail had been lopped off. = chop PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron), V P n (not pron) 2. If you lop an amount of money or time off something such as a budget or a schedule, you reduce the budget or schedule by that amount. (INFORMAL) The Air France plane lopped over four hours off the previous best time... More than 100 million pounds will be lopped off the prison building programme. PHRASAL VERB: V n P n, V n P n, also V P n (not pron), V n P

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Cut, cut off, obtruncate. 2. Dock, crop, curtail, prune, cut short. 3. Sever, dissever, detach, cut off. 4. Drop, let fall.

Moby Thesaurus

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