Adjective : lop ears. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : He lopped his arms at his sides in utter exhaustion. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : a rabbit lopping through the garden. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : We had to lop off whole pages of the report before presenting it to the committee. From Dictionary.com.
Luckily, the system fell apart when the head of this confederacy of dunces was lopped from the shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Top Ten Movie Villains of All Time | Heretical Ideas Magazine] Reference
With a solid strike his sword lopped off one of the screeling's arms. From Wordnik.com. [Stone of Tears]
Some with lopped heads: so says the Geste of France. From Wordnik.com. [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference
To writhe, then, with his tongue and ears, both lopped. From Wordnik.com. [Freedom, Truth and Beauty] Reference
If the limb be unworthy and unsound, let it be lopped off. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
With lugging uphill these lopped branches of the olive-tree. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
A pine lopped by his hand guides and steadies his footsteps. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
It's almost as if some part of us had been lopped off, isn't it?. From Wordnik.com. [General Max Shorter] Reference
Some had branches lopped short to prevent them coming over the wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
The assassins had not only lopped the branches but had uprooted the tree. From Wordnik.com. [For The Admiral] Reference
Accordingly, Jason took the branch at its word and lopped it off the tree. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
In place of tents, their hand axes lopped off a brush shelter in short order. From Wordnik.com. [The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series] Reference
Using his sword two-handed, Barrent lopped off vines; others grew in their place. From Wordnik.com. [The Status Civilization] Reference
So I lopped off his head and reworked the creation by adding a heart to his sleeve. From Wordnik.com. [The Last VooDoo Doll] Reference
The tree fallen, its branches are lopped, its purple trunk is shortened into lengths. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
From the 2007 top, the housing sector, alone, has lopped 4 percentage points off GDP. From Wordnik.com. [Bernanke's Fed Full Of Blind Mice] Reference
(Gen.iii. 14), the ministering angels descended and lopped off his hands and his feet. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
As he fled down the hill he saw below an old oak tree whose first branches had been lopped off. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
Cuchulain lopped off an oak that was before him in that place and set an ogam-writing on its side. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge] Reference
I judiciously cut here and there until I had lopped £55m off this year's £2. 2bn spending total. From Wordnik.com. [Society daily 10.08.2010] Reference
Numerous trees lopped of their branches were still standing, while many others were lying on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the "9th King's" in France] Reference
They had tallies, consisting of sprigs lopped from a fruit-bearing tree, marked in a particular manner, thrown into. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
When the tree is about two years old the top branches are lopped off for the purpose of throwing the sap into the bean. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Again: we profess to have lopped from our democratic tree the old-world customs of hereditary title and patrimonial honor. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
They saw they were fighting a hydra; for as fast as they lopped off heads in any direction, fresh ones sprang up in others. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
With one powerful stroke, even hampered as he was by the heavy medium in which he operated, Koku lopped off one of the legs. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Undersea Search, or, the Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic] Reference
Its glow was on the eastern sky, however, and at length it appeared, a broken orb with its waning side lopped from its bulk. From Wordnik.com. [The Furnace of Gold] Reference
After the tree was felled it had to be cut off again at the right length, the branches lopped off, and one end rudely sharpened. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
It's a theatrical version of the BBC miniseries "Planet Earth," only with the grisly parts lopped out to make it family friendly. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Wild Things Die] Reference
Step 4: The bottoms of the refrigerators are lopped off with a reciprocating saw, exposing their polyurethane foam-insulation walls. From Wordnik.com. [Ever wonder what happens to appliances you get rid of? Take a visit to a facility where JACO "demanufactures" appliances] Reference
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