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单词 lopping
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loppingn.1

/ˈlɒpɪŋ/
Etymology: < lop v.1 + -ing suffix1.
1. The action of lop v.1This was the cant term used by the Rye House conspirators for the killing of the King and the Duke of York: see Tryals of Walcot, Hone, etc. for High-treason (1683) 12.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > pruning or lopping
shreddingc1000
putation?1440
snathing1485
loppingc1511
brushing1513
topping1513
twisting1535
pruning1548
heading1552
browsing1574
lop1575
disbranching1600
debranching1601
stocking1611
stowing1618
polling1626
supputation1656
summer pruning1669
snedding1720
shrouding1725
pollarding1794
thinning1800
brashing1950
the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > [noun] > cutting up or dismemberment
lopping1641
blood-eagle1835
c1511 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 63 For ffellynge of an Elme & for the loppynge therof byfore vjd.
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 63 A punishment..for the lopping, and stigmatizing of so many free borne Christians.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 543 Walcot..liked the project of a rising, but declared he would not meddle in their lopping.
1793 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 479 No lopping-off of territory could be made without a lopping-off of citizens.
1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold III. xii. i. 249 The trees were dwarfed in height by repeated loppings.
2. (Chiefly plural) Branches and shoots lopped from a tree. Also, material for lopping.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > pruning or lopping > prunings or loppings
shreddingc950
trouse978
stickc1175
rammelc1250
spray1297
brush1330
shriding1340
shridels1399
lopc1420
shraggingc1440
shroud1475
tops1485
polling1557
brutting1577
lopping1589
pruning1658
toppings1668
scorel1671
loppage1683
lop-wood1693
shrouding1725
cropping1768
1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 884 The loppings of trees, concædes.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. x. 49 He shall gather vp the loppings to make fewell of.
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 956 Filling them with earth and small loppings of Trees.
1766 Museum Rusticum 80 It is also the best kind to plant..by the sides of rills, etc. where they will produce larger lopping.
1818 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 19 49 The loppings and leaves of the elm..dried in the sun, prove a great relief to cattle when fodder is dear.
3. attributive.
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1659 J. Howell Particular Vocab. in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) A lopping hook, vn falcinello.
1787 Minor 160 The idea of foreign surgeons using their lopping knives.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Lopping-shears, a pair of heavy shears for trimming bushes, hedges, etc.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

loppingn.2

/ˈlɒpɪŋ/
Etymology: < lop v.2 + -ing suffix1.
Of the ears: The condition of hanging loosely.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > lop-ears > hanging loosely
lopping1868
1868 C. Darwin Variation Animals & Plants I. iv. 116 Even the elongation and lopping of the ears have influenced in a small degree the form of the whole skull.
1868 C. Darwin Variation Animals & Plants I. iv. 118 In breeding lop-eared rabbits the length of the ears, and their consequent lopping and lying flat on the face, are the chief points of excellence.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

loppingn.3

Etymology: Compare lop n.5
Obsolete. rare.
The process of barking or tanning leather.
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1773 Encycl. Brit. III. 886/2 Of Lopping, or what is more properly called Tanning. This part of the operation is designed to preserve the fibres from corruption.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

loppingadj.1

/ˈlɒpɪŋ/
Etymology: < lop v.1 + -ing suffix2.
That lops or cuts away.
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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
1795 Sewel's Hist. Quakers (ed. 3) I. ii. 112 By the lopping axe, the sturdy oak Improves her shade.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

loppingadj.2

/ˈlɒpɪŋ/
Etymology: < lop v.2 + -ing suffix2.
1. Of the ears: That lop or hang down.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having ears > having lop-ears > that lop
vailed1591
lopping1685
1685 London Gaz. No. 2099/4 A gray Horse with a large Head and lopping Ears.
1770 G. White Let. Mar. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 79 The ears [of the moose] were vast and lopping.
1792 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 20. 158 The Land of Secrets, where dwell a people with long lopping ears and little gimlet eyes.
1868 C. Darwin Variation Animals & Plants I. iv. 119 The left zygomatic arch on the side of the lopping ear.
2. Of an angler's fly.
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1885 W. H. Russell in Harper's Mag. Apr. 769/1 With limber rod and far-reaching lopping fly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

loppingadj.3

/ˈlɒpɪŋ/
Etymology: < lop v.3 + -ing suffix2.
Of the sea: Rising and falling in short waves.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [adjective] > choppy
chapping1622
chopping1623
cockling1625
popping1661
short1663
coppling1667
lumpy1857
choppy1867
snappish1867
chopped1880
loppy1883
lopping1887
popply1889
sloppy1970
1887 Spectator 29 Oct. 1453 Lying-to in a lopping sea.
1890 W. S. Gilbert Foggerty's Fairy & Other Tales 305 I rose and fell in the sulky lopping sea.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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