Lop
Lop , noun
[Anglo-Saxon loppe.]
A flea. [Obsolete] — Cleveland
Lop (lop) , transitive verb
[Prov. German luppen, lubben, to cut, geld, or OD. luppen, Dutch 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.
Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts.
2.
To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.
Lop , noun
That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree. — Shak. Mortimer
Lop , intransitive verb
To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
Lop , transitive verb
To let hang down; as, to lop the head.
Lop , adjective
Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.