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Webster 1913 Edition

Lop

Lop

,
Noun.
[AS.
loppe
.]
A flea.
[Obs.]
Cleveland.

Lop

(lŏp)
,
Verb.
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 shorten 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

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

Lop

,
Verb.
I.
To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.

Lop

,
Verb.
T.
To let hang down;
as, to
lop
the head
.

Lop

,
Adj.
Hanging down;
as,
lop
ears
; – used also in compound adjectives;
as,
lop
eared;
lop
sided.

Webster 1828 Edition

Lop

LOP

,
Verb.
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

,
Noun.
that which is cut from trees.
Else both body and lop will be of little value.

LOP

,
Noun.
a flea. [Local.]

Definition 2024

löp

löp

See also: lop, loep, lốp, lớp, and løp

Swedish

Verb

löp

  1. imperative of löpa.

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