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Definition of Loping
1. lope [v] - See also: lope
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loping
Literary usage of Loping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh Gazetteer, Or Geographical Dictionary ...: Accompanied by an Atlas (1822)
"... rock is composed of sandstone, very precipitous on one side, but gradually »loping
on the other. ..."
2. The Sportsman's Dictionary: Or The Gentleman's Companion: for Town and ...Sports (1800)
"... (loping, without touching one another; ranging them all in fuch a manner, that
a bird cannot light upon the hedge without being entangled. .SV Plate 11. ..."
3. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"**loping: Another indication of too rich a mixture is when "idling;" the engine
will run in a loping manner as if actuated by a governor; more air, ..."
4. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1840)
"... one ol'lhc most celebrated of lin: learned men of China, or at least, one of
those best known in I'.n- rope, was born at loping,* in tin- province of ..."
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