| 单词 | top and lop |
| 释义 | > as lemmastop and lop b. In plural. The smaller branches and twigs of a tree, as distinct from the timber. Chiefly in tops and lops (or tops, lops, and bark) and variants: waste branches cut from trees felled for timber, esp. when regarded as a commodity in their own right. Also as a mass noun in top and lop and variants. Cf. lop n.3 1. ΘΚΠ 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 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iii. l. 921 Men graffeth of theyr toppes & their treynes. 1485–6 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 98 Recepta. 16s. pro corticibus et Toppys in Silva de Rylley. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xliiiv Yf thou haue any wood to sell..sell the toppes as they lye. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 92 A certain gentleman..obtained a parcel of Elm-trees lops and tops. 1840 Bristol Mercury 6 June 4/5 1 Wych Elm, No. 2, with the Lops Tops, and Crops, to the same. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 233/2 In a sale of standing timber trees they are advertised with their ‘lop, top, and bark’. 1876 Bill of Sale in W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words (1883) (at cited word) Oak-trees and clean oak flitterns with their tops, lops, and bark. 1991 Financial Times (Nexis) 13 Feb. 11 The ‘top and lop’ (waste branches) and any other waste from every tree processed is converted into chips of varying size and quality. 2017 Pioneer (India) (Nexis) 2 Oct. The lops and tops obtained on removal of firewood species of trees will be handed over..for use of free of cost firewood in public crematoriums of Delhi. < as lemmas |
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