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
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.
• (to cut off): snead
lop (plural lops)
That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
lop (plural lops)
(Geordie) A flea.
Back-formation from lopsided.
lop (plural lops)
(US, dated, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
• LPO, PLO, POL, Pol., pol
Lop
A county of Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
A town in Lop, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
• (from Mandarin Chinese) Luopu, Lo-p'u, Lohpu
• 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
19 November 2024
(noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
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