To cut off, as the top or extreme part of any thing; to shorten by cutting off the extremities; as, to lop a tree or its branches. With branches lopp’d in wood, or mountain fell’d.

To cut off, as exuberances; to separate, as superfluous parts. Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts.

to cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop the trees or saplings of a hedge.

To let fall; to flap; as, a horse lops his ears.

that which is cut from trees. Else both body and lop will be of little value.

a flea.