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lopped


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Lop  \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  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.'' 
  --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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  lopped 
  adj  :  (of  plants  or  trees)  having  the  top  or  outer  parts  cut  off 
  "lopped-off  branches"  [syn:  {lopped  off}] 




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