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LOP
snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back
(verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; “dress the plants in the garden”
discerp, sever, lop
(verb) cut off from a whole; “His head was severed from his body”; “The soul discerped from the body”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
lop (third-person singular simple present lops, present participle lopping, simple past and past participle lopt or lopped)
(transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
To allow to hang down.
Synonyms
• (to cut off): snead
Noun
lop (plural lops)
That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
Etymology 2
Noun
lop (plural lops)
(Geordie) A flea.
Etymology 3
Back-formation from lopsided.
Noun
lop (plural lops)
(US, dated, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
Anagrams
• LPO, PLO, POL, Pol., pol
Etymology
Proper noun
Lop
A county of Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
A town in Lop, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
Synonyms
• (from Mandarin Chinese) Luopu, Lo-p'u, Lohpu
Anagrams
• LPO, PLO, POL, Pol., pol
Source: Wiktionary
Lop, n. Etym: [AS. loppe.]
Definition: A flea.[Obs.] Cleveland.
Lop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Lopping.] Etym: [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 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. To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.
Lop, n.
Definition: That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree. Shak. Mortimer.
Lop, v. i.
Definition: To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
Lop, v. t.
Definition: To let hang down; as, to lop the head.
Lop, a.
Definition: Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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