LOP, v.t. [Eng. flap. The primary sense is evidently to fall or fell, or to strike down, and I think it connected with flap.] 1. To cut off, as the top or extreme part of any thing; to shorten by cutting off the extremities; as, to lop a tree or its branches.With branches lopp'd in wood, or mountain fell'd.2. To cut off, as exuberances; to separate, as superfluous parts.Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts.3. to cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop the trees or saplings of a hedge.4. To let fall; to flap; as, a horse lops his ears.LOP, n. that which is cut from trees. Else both body and lop will be of little value.LOP, n. a flea. [Local.]
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