Lop /(?)/

1. A flea. [Obs.]

imp. & p. p. Lopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Lopping

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.

   Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts.

2. To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.

1. That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.

1. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.

1. To let hang down; as, to lop the head.

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