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/lɒp/ · verb
(transitive, usually with off) 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,
to lop the head
Why, we take, From every tree, lop, bark, and part o'the timber
I ſhall not trouble you about the raiſing of them of Truncheons or Lops, because I could never find them to take; only ſometimes ſome of the ſmallest Suckers, when the Sap is newly ſtirring in them, if they are ſlipt off from the Tree, will grow
Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.
Lice, That's nick name to the stuff called Lops
"He's a lop; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one."
Use lop when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lop means (transitive, usually with off) 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..
Common synonyms include snead, trim, crop, clip.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Some, for hard masters, broken under arms, In battle lopt away, with half their limbs, Beg bitter bread thro’ realms their valour sav’d,
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