Definition of Lop

1. Verb. Cut off from a whole. "The soul discerped from the body"

Exact synonyms: Discerp, Sever
Generic synonyms: Cut
Related verbs: Break Up, Sever
Derivative terms: Lopper, Severance, Severing

2. Verb. Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of. "They lop the trees"; "Dress the plants in the garden"
Exact synonyms: Clip, Crop, Cut Back, Dress, Prune, Snip, Trim
Generic synonyms: Thin Out
Specialized synonyms: Shear, Poll, Pollard, Pinch, Top, Disbud
Derivative terms: Clip, Clipper, Clipping, Crop, Lopper, Pruner, Pruner, Pruning, Snip, Snip, Trim, Trimmer, Trimming

Definition of Lop

1. n. A flea.

2. v. t. To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to shoorten by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove, as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches.

3. n. That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.

4. v. i. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.

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

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

Definition of Lop

1. to cut off branches or twigs from [v LOPPED, LOPPING, LOPS]

Medical Definition of Lop

1. 1. 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. "With branches lopped, in wood or mountain felled." "Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts." (Pope) 2. To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge. Origin: Prov. G. Luppen, lubben,to cut, geld, or OD. Luppen, D. Lubben. That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lop

loose skin
loose smut
loose trousers
loose woman
loosing
loot
looted
looten
looter
looters
looting
lootings
loots
looves
lop (current term)
lop (current term)
lop-ear
lop-eared
lope
lope
loped
loper
loperamide
loperamide hydrochloride
lopers
lopes
Lope de Vega
Lope Felix de Vega Carpio
lopgrass
Lophiidae

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