Lop (?), n. [AS. loppe.]
A flea.
[Obs.]
Cleveland.
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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.
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Lop, n.
That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.
Shak. Mortimer.
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Lop, v. i.
To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
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Lop, v. t.
To let hang down; as, to lop the head.
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Lop, a.
Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
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