In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
LOPPED
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
Verb
lopped
simple past tense and past participle of lop
Source: Wiktionary
LOP
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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