What does "lop" mean?
Lop: To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to shoas, 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.
Additional senses
- 2.To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.
- 3.That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree. Shak. Mortimer.
- 4.To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
- 5.To let hang down; as, to lop the head.
- 6.Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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