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lop(2) (iou)



lop noun2. LME.
[Origin uncertain: perh. ult. rel. to Lithuanian lupti to strip, to peel; later partly from LOP verb1. Cf. earlier LOPPED adjective, Anglo-Latin loppa (pl.).]
collect. The smaller branches and twigs of a tree; faggot-wood. Also, a branch that has been lopped off. LME.
lop and top, lop and crop the trimmings of a tree.
The action or process of lopping a tree or boughs. Only in L16.
Comb.: lop-wood branches and twigs lopped from a tree.