LOPPING

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

lopping

present participle of lop

Noun

lopping (plural loppings)

The cutting off of branches, etc.

That which is cut off; leavings.

the loppings made from that stock whilst it stood

Source: Wiktionary


Lop"ping, n.

Definition: A cutting off, as of branches; that which is cut off; leavings. The loppings made from that stock whilst it stood. Burke.

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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