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Definition of Lop off
1. Verb. Remove by or as if by cutting. "Lop off the dead branch"
Specialized synonyms: Abscise, Roach
Generic synonyms: Come Away, Come Off, Detach
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lop Off
Literary usage of Lop off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"To lop off, to strip deprive or divest of the branches ; ie tha' which bends,
turns, reaches, extends, sc from the trunk ; from the main stem, (met. ..."
2. A Cyclopædic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language Spoken in British Central by David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1892)
"... to expose one'» chest; to»o, flit ; tya tya tya., level, smooth.) Sadza.
ku, TO lop off, the branch of a tree ; ku-«aihn ntambi, ..."
3. Trukese-English Dictionary by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1980)
"chop, lop, or cut the lop off (as with an axe). ... cut or lop off (coconut top
or growing end off (a tree). ... cut off, chop off, lop off. wuku-2 ..."
4. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions by Robert South (1823)
"Divine and heavenly things do indeed refine and lop off the extravagancy, but
they abate nothing of the vigour of our affections. Christ has determined the ..."
5. Technological Dictionary: English-Spanish and Spanish-English of Words and by Néstor Ponce de León (1920)
"... to lop off decayed branches. 'destacado (f a.) detached. destacamento, detachment.
destacar (nul ) to detach. — и (lop.) to project (p. ..."
6. Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1829)
"... and lop off the false branches which have been engrafted into it by the
mythologists of the middle and modern ages. I am not aware of the peculiar ..."
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