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noun

Collop n. (Written also colp)

A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh. "God knows thou art a collop of my flesh." "Sweetbread and collops were with skewers pricked."

A part or piece of anything; a portion. "Cut two good collops out of the crown land."

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Etymology of 'Collop'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Collop" Quotes from Famous Books

... of Lamb Head, broken into a thousand jagged slopes, is here and there overgrown with short sweet herbage. Wherever grass grows there will a Kerry calf or "collop" be found. How the pretty little black cattle cling like flies to those dizzy windy heights is marvellous; but there they are, night and day, for months at a stretch, giving no trouble to anybody, growing into condition ready ...

— Disturbed Ireland - Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. • Bernard H. Becker

... hungry as a famished wolf. The bars were lying right before me, but jest beyond reach, as if to tantylise me. I could have ate a collop raw if I could a-got hold of it, but how to reach ...

— The Hunters' Feast - Conversations Around the Camp Fire • Mayne Reid