| 单词 | lop and crop |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslop and crop 1. The smaller branches and twigs of trees, such as are not measured for timber; faggot-wood, loppings. Also, a branch lopped off. lop and top, waste branches cut from timber trees, usually after the trees have been felled; also lop and crop. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun] woodc888 trouse978 stickc1175 spray1297 spraya1300 firewood1377 lopc1420 billet1465 buchette1507 bag-wood1525 bavin1573 brushment1591 brushwood1616 burning-wood1642 firebote1661 chump1680 lop-wood1693 brush1699 burn-wood1701 lightwood1705 shravel1732 billet-wood1759 hedge-wood1785 pine knot1791 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 the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > pruning or lopping > lopped or pruned part lopa1641 cutback1897 c1420 Pallad. on Husb. vi. 45 And stones yf thee lacketh, this is boote: Sarment, or stre, or loope [L. vel quibuscunque virgultis] in hit be graued. 1464 Rolls of Parl. V. 547/1 The Loppes and Croppes of Woode, falled withynne our fryth of Leycestre. 1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student l. f. cxliiiiv What thynke they yf a man felle the loppes of his woode whether any tythe ought there to be payde. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 31 Let lop be shorne, that hindreth corne. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. ii. 97 We take From euery Tree, lop, barke, and part o'th' Timber. View more context for this quotation 1651 W. G. tr. J. Cowell Inst. Lawes Eng. 265 Where any one is killed, with the fall of an Arme or Lopp of a Tree..after warning given by the parties who are..lopping. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 92 A certain gentleman..obtained a parcel of Elm-trees lops and tops. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani [506] Lops of Trees above twenty years Growth pay no Tithes. 1774 T. West Antiq. Furness (1805) 228 Anye kind of underwoods, topps, loppes, croppes, or other woods. 1805 Trans. Soc. Arts 23 135 I also considered the value of the tops and lop, or trimmings of the trees. 1819 W. Faux Jrnl. 16 Oct. in Memorable Days Amer. (1823) 176 What [trees] are cut down, together with the lop, are rolled by levers into heaps and burnt. 1826 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 28 Oct. 287 What is the price of this load of timber?... taking in lop, top and bark..ten pounds a load at the least. 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 684/1 When timber trees are sold the purchaser bargains to take them either with or without the lop and crop. 1862 T. L. Peacock Mem. Shelley in Wks. (1875) III. 448 The gardener had cut it [sc. a holly-tree] up into a bare pole, selling the lop for Christmas decorations. 1892 Times 24 Oct. 3/1 Cord wood is the smaller limbs of oak, the lop and top of the branches when the trees are felled. 1938 C. P. Ackers Pract. Brit. Forestry vi. 194 Lop and top may be overcome either by burning or by stacking it in ‘trenches’. 1972 Country Life 30 Mar. 789/3 ‘Lopp and Topp’—the side and top branches—were the college property and if from ash or oak fetched 8s. to 9s. 6d. a load. < as lemmas |
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