loppedadj.
/lɒpt/ a. In senses of the verb. Botany and Zoology: Truncate.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [adjective] > pruned or lopped
doddedc1440
lopped1570
stubbed1575
polled1587
pollard1638
putatory1656
sneddedc1700
topped1712
pollarded?1790
lopping1795
spurring-in1829
summer-pruned1830
trunkless1897
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > [adjective] > cut-off
cutc1380
gird-off1382
resecate1530
resect1540
lopped1570
severed1581
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > shortness > [adjective] > shortened > (as if) by cutting
cuttedc1386
docked1408
stucked?a1439
trunked1552
cropped1558
lopped1570
short-cut1596
stumped1598
dubbeda1661
truncated1704
truncate1717
well-cropped1805
clipped1870
junky1873
lobbed1883
crop1957
the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > having a rounded end
truncated1752
obtuse1753
premorse1753
retuse1753
spatulate1760
spatulated1777
lopped1787
succise1880
the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > physical arrangement or condition > [adjective] > truncated
truncated1752
lopped1787
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Div/1 Lopped, tonsus.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 455 The lofty Cedar, Royall Cymbeline, Personates thee: And thy lopt Branches, point Thy two Sonnes forth. View more context for this quotation
1645 E. Waller Of Queen 26 By cutting hope, like a lopt limbe, away.
1721 A. Ramsay Marquis of Bowmont 40 His lop'd-off locks.
1787 E. Darwin et al. tr. C. Linnaeus et al. Families of Plants I. 3 Headlet flat, with the side declining to the nectary lop'd, perforated.
1787 E. Darwin et al. tr. C. Linnaeus et al. Families of Plants I. 3 Seeds very numerous, oblong, lop'd.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. x. 533 So tumble his lopp'd head into the dust.
1812 Barclay's Compl. & Universal Eng. Dict. (rev. ed.) Lopped, in botany, appearing as if cut off with a pair of scissars; the leaves of the great bindweed are lopped at the base; the petals of the periwinkle are lopped at the end.
1847 J. Hardy in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. v. 234 Labial palpi filiform, or the last joint but slightly enlarged and lopped.
1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. lxxxii. 365 A hope that the lopped tree may yet become green again.
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch IV. viii. lxxiv. 211 She needed time to get used to her maimed consciousness, her poor lopped life.
1898 A. Balfour To Arms xxi. 241 He might have had the unenviable experience of a lopped-off head.
b. Heraldry. (See quots.)
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of vegetation > [adjective] > cut or torn off
slipped1610
lopped1828
1828–40 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Lopped, or Snagged, differs from couping, which does not show the thickness, whereas, this is cut off to sight.
1884 B. Burke Gen. Armory p. xli Lopped, or snagged, cut so as to show the thickness.
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