lopped

Verb

lop (third-person singular simple present lops, present participle lopping, simple past and past participle lopped or lopt)

1. (transitive, usually) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
   • Some, for hard masters, broken under arms,
     In battle lopt away, with half their limbs,
     Beg bitter bread thro’ realms their valour sav’d,1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I

   Synonyms:

   snead

2. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
3. To allow to hang down.
   • to lop the head

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