lop Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb cut off from a whole
    discerp; sever.
    • His head was severed from his body
    • The soul discerped from the body
  2. verb cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
    trim; prune; clip; cut back; crop; snip; dress.
    • dress the plants in the garden

WordNet

Lop noun
Etymology
AS. loppe.
Definitions
  1. A flea.Obs. Cleveland.
Lop transitive verb
Etymology
Prov. G. luppen, lubben,to cut, geld, or OD. luppen, D. lubben.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Lopped ; present participle & verbal noun Lopping
Definitions
  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.
Lop noun
Definitions
  1. That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree. Shak. Mortimer.
Lop intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
Lop transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To let hang down; as, to lop the head.
Lop adjective
Definitions
  1. Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.

Webster 1913