Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Lop \Lop\, v. i.
To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
Lop \Lop\, v. t.
To let hang down; as, to lop the head.
Lop \Lop\, a.
Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound
adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
Lop \Lop\, n. [AS. loppe.]
A flea.[Obs.] --Cleveland.
Lop \Lop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lopped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Lopping}.] [Prov. G. luppen, lubben,to cut, geld, or OD.
luppen, D. lubben.]
1. To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to sho?
-- by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove
as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches.
``With branches lopped, in wood or mountain felled.''
--Milton.
Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts.
--Pope.
2. To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a
hedge.
Lop \Lop\, n.
That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.
--Shak. Mortimer.
Source : WordNet®
lop
v 1: cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body";
"The soul discerped from the body" [syn: {discerp}, {sever}]
2: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the
plants in the garden" [syn: {snip}, {clip}, {crop}, {trim},
{dress}, {prune}, {cut back}]
[also: {lopping}, {lopped}]
Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
LOP
A language based on {first-order logic}.
["SETHEO - A High-Perormance Theorem Prover for First-Order
Logic", Reinhold Letz et al, J Automated Reasoning
8(2):183-212 (1992)].