What does lop mean?we found 6 entries for the meaning of lop
 

Lop \Lop\, v. i. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Lop \Lop\, v. t. To let hang down; as, to lop the head.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Lop \Lop\, a. Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Lop \Lop\, n. [AS. loppe.]

A flea.[Obs.]

--Cleveland.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Lop \Lop\, 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 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Lop \Lop\, n. That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree. --Shak. Mortimer.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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