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Definition of Lop
1. Verb. Cut off from a whole. "The soul discerped from the body"
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"
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)
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