Definitions for: Lop

[v] cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of"dress the plants in the garden"
[v] cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"

Webster (1913) Definition: Lop, n. [AS. loppe.]
A flea.[Obs.] --Cleveland.

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.

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

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

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

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

Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, prune, sever, snip, trim

See Also: cut, disbud, pinch, poll, pollard, shear, thin out, top

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