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lop
UK /lɒp/ US /lɑp/
noun 4verb 3name 2
Collocations
2LOP + NOUN
county, ear, kilometers
PREP.
from, in, off
Definitions
verb
1
To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
Some, for hard masters, broken under arms, In battle lopt away, with half their limbs, Beg bitter bread thro’ realms their valour sav’d,
2
To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
3
To allow to hang down.
to lop the head
noun
1
That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
Why, we take, From every tree, lop, bark, and part o'the timber
I ſhall not trouble you about the raiſing of them of Truncheons or Lops, because I could never find them to take; only ſometimes ſome of the ſmallest Suckers, when the Sap is newly ſtirring in them, if they are ſlipt off from the Tree, will grow
noun
1
A flea.
Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.
Lice, That's nick name to the stuff called Lops
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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Some, for hard masters, broken under arms, In battle lopt away, with half their limbs, Beg bitter bread thro’ realms their valour sav’d,
Wiktionary02
to lop the head
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Why, we take, From every tree, lop, bark, and part o'the timber
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I ſhall not trouble you about the raiſing of them of Truncheons or Lops, because I could never find them to take; only ſometimes ſome of the ſmallest Suckers, when the Sap is newly ſtirring in them, i
Wiktionary05
Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.
Wiktionary06
Lice, That's nick name to the stuff called Lops
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