Thesaurus: lop

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1. n. A flea.
2. v. t. 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.
3. v. t. To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.
4. n. That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.
5. v. i. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
6. v. t. To let hang down; as, to lop the head.
7. a. Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
8. v. cut off from a whole
9. v. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
10. A flea.[Obs.] Cleveland. 1. To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to shoas, 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. That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree. Shak. Mortimer. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side. To let hang down; as, to lop the head. Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
11. A flea.[Obs.] Cleveland.
12. v:100 v cut off from a whole v cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of