Category:Lop

Lop, n. Etym: [AS. loppe.]

Defn: A flea.[Obs.] Cleveland.

lop 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 Lop, n.

Defn: That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree. Shak. Mortimer.

lop Lop, v. i.

Defn: To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.

lop Lop, v. t.

Defn: To let hang down; as, to lop the head.

lop Lop, a.

Defn: Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.