LOP

n. v. a.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A flea.[Obs.] Cleveland.

2.
v.

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.

3.
v.

To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.

4.
n.

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

5.
v.

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

6.
v.

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

7.
a.

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

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