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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Lop

Lop, n. [AS. loppe.] A flea.[Obs.] Cleveland.

Lop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Lopping.] [Prov. G. luppen, lubben,to cut, geld, or OD. luppen, D. lubben.] 1. 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. "With branches lopped, in wood or mountain felled." Milton.

Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts. Pope.

2. To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.

Lop, n. That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree. Shak. Mortimer.

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

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

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

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.