lop

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1. 1.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.
2. 2.To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.
3. 3.That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree. Shak. Mortimer.
4. 4.To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
5. 5.To let hang down; as, to lop the head.
6. 6.Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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