[syn: snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lop \Lop\, a.
Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound
adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lop \Lop\, n. [AS. loppe.]
A flea. [Obs.] --Cleveland.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lop \Lop\ (l[o^]p), 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
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.
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Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts.
--Pope.
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2. To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a
hedge.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lop \Lop\, n.
That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.
--Shak. Mortimer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lop \Lop\, v. i.
To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lop \Lop\, v. t.
To let hang down; as, to lop the head.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
lop
v 1: cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body";
"The soul discerped from the body" [syn: discerp,
sever, lop]
2: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the
plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim,
lop, dress, prune, cut back]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
LOP
A language based on first-order logic.
["SETHEO - A High-Perormance Theorem Prover for First-Order
Logic", Reinhold Letz et al, J Automated Reasoning
8(2):183-212 (1992)].