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