Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Lop"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lop \Lop\, v. i.
To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lop \Lop\, v. t.
To let hang down; as, to lop the head.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lop \Lop\, a.
Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound
adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lop \Lop\, n. [AS. loppe.]
A flea.[Obs.] --Cleveland.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lop \Lop\, n.
That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.
--Shak. Mortimer.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
lop
v 1: cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"
[syn: {sever}]
2: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of "dress the
plants in the garden" [syn: {snip}, {clip}, {crop}, {trim},
{dress}, {prune}, {cut back}]
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