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Lop   /lɑp/   Listen
noun
Lop  n.  A flea. (Obs.)


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


verb
Lop  v. t.  (past & past part. lopped; pres. part. lopping)  
1.
To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to shorten 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." "Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts."
2.
To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.


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


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


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





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"Lop" Quotes from Famous Books



... we have said, it was nearly full-grown. He appeared to have no idea of personal danger. Possibly he did not believe the huge playful brute to be capable of mischief. Perhaps he felt confident in the keen edge of his Damascene scimitar, and in the power of his arm to lop off even leonine heads. Whatever may have been the truth on this point, his ease and indifference were evidently ...
— The Pirate City - An Algerine Tale • R.M. Ballantyne
... and sound through such a confounded difficulty as this of ours. For my part I don't hope, nor indeed wish, to see the Union restored as it was. Amputation seems to me much the better plan, and all we ought to fight for is the liberty of selecting the point where our diseased members shall be lop't off. I would fight to the death for the northern slave States and ...
— Nathaniel Hawthorne • George E. Woodberry
... turf, stone, and trunk, and shoot, and lop, Cast without cease into the beauteous source; Till, turbid from the bottom to the top, Never again was clear the troubled course. At length, for lack of breath, compelled to stop, (When he is bathed in sweat, and wasted force, Serves ...
— Orlando Furioso • Lodovico Ariosto
... where the snow is pushed away there lies a round heap of anguish, curled up, pinched nose flat on the snow and two ears laid lop to a vanquished head. It is still breathing, though the dull eyes open not at sound of the trapper, bold in his safety, who lifts his ...
— The Maid of the Whispering Hills • Vingie E. Roe
... is eccentric. Provided she marries him, the family programme will be changed. You must lop him from the ...
— The Morgesons • Elizabeth Stoddard


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