lop
v.
cut off; prune a tree or other plant; remove, eliminate; hang limply, droop
n.
something which has been cut off; small branches and twigs cut from a tree
adj.
hanging loosely, drooping
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lop
Verb
1. cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"
(synonym) discerp, sever
(hypernym) cut
(verb-group) sever, break up
(derivation) pruner, pruning hook, lopper
2. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"
(synonym) snip, clip, crop, trim, dress, prune, cut back
(hypernym) thin out
(hyponym) shear
(derivation) pruner, pruning hook, lopper
lop
interj.
plop
n.
lobe
Lop
(v. t.)
To let hang down; as, to lop the head.
(v. t.)
To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.
(v. t.)
To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to sho/ -- by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches.
(v. i.)
To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
(n.)
That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.
(n.)
A flea.
(a.)
Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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