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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lop \Lop\ (l[o^]p), verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lop \Lop\, noun That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree. --Shak. Mortimer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lop \Lop\, verb (used without an object) To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lop \Lop\, verb (used with an object) To let hang down; as, to lop the head.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lop \Lop\, adjective Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lop \Lop\, noun [AS. loppe.] A flea. [Obs.] --Cleveland.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
lop
verb
1: cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body" [syn: {discerp}, {sever}]
2: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: {snip}, {clip}, {crop}, {trim}, {dress}, {prune}, {cut back}] [also: {lopping}, {lopped}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "lop": abscind, amputate, annihilate, bag, bagging, baggy, ballooning, ban, bar, bob, bounce, bound, cascade, clip, crop, cull, cut, cut away, cut off, cut out, daggle, dangle, depend, dock, drabble, drag, draggle, drape, droop, drooping, droopy, eliminate, enucleate, eradicate, except, excise, exclude, extinguish, extirpate, fall, flap, flop, floppy, flow, hang, hang down, hop, hurdle, isolate, knock off, leap, limp, loll, lollop, loose, lop-eared, loppy, mutilate, nip, nod, nodding, pare, peel, pend, pick out, prune, root out, rule out, sag, sagging, sagging in folds, saggy, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, slump, spring, stamp out, strike off, strip, strip off, swag, swing, take off, take out, trail, trollop, truncate, vault, weep, wipe out
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
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)].
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
LOP Loss of Pointer (UNI)
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