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In the ear-lop, the ears spread out in an horizontal position, like the wings of a bird in flight, or the arms of a man swimming.

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  1. transitive verb To cut off (a part), especially from a tree or shrub: lopped off the dead branches.
  2. transitive verb To cut off a part or parts from; trim: lopped the vines back; lopped her curls shorter.
  3. transitive verb To eliminate or excise as superfluous: lopped him from the payroll.

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  • Don't make her too lop-sided, or else don't match her up to the man like me. —  Teddy: Her Book A Story of Sweet Sixteen
  • But there was the fresh smell of loam and moss and aromatic leaves, the music of the Lisse on the pebbles, the joyous chorus of feathered creatures from every thicket, and there were the antics of the giddy young rabbits that scuttled through the warrens, leaping, tumbling, sitting up, lop-eared and impudent, or diving head-first into their burrows Under the stems of a thorn thicket two cock-pheasants were having a difference, and were enthusiastically settling that difference in the approved method of game-cocks. —  Lorraine A romance
  • I propose Diz trying to launch a lop-sided 'Reform' ship, with the title 'Will it Swim?' —  The History of "Punch"
  • These habits of his were enacting the old story of the lop-eared rabbits in Australia--overrunning the country. —  Aladdin ; Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic
  • The drive was long and very winding, so that she did not at first perceive that there was someone in front of her who seemed to be bound on the same errand; when she did so, however, she had no difficulty in recognising the figure, which had a lop-sided movement like a bird with one wing. —  A Pair of Clogs
 

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Etymologies (8)

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  1. Perhaps from Middle English loppe, small branches and twigs.
  2. Origin unknown.

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  1. A variant of lap, q. v. Cf. lop, prob. the same word in another sense. For the variation of vowel, cf. flap and flop, strap and strop, knap and knop.
  2. from lop, v.
  3. from Middle English *loppen (not recorded, but prob. the source of Middle Latin loppare, lop); prob. another use (‘cut the lap or loose edges of’) of lop, variant of lap. Cf. French lopin, a fragment, morsel, from the same ult. source, namely Anglo-Saxon læppa, etc., edge, margin, etc. In this view, the word is not related to Middle Dutch luppen, Dutch lubben, maim, castrate: see lib.
  4. from Middle English loppe (= Swedish loppa = Danish loppe), a flea; prob. from Anglo-Saxon hleápan, leap: see leap, and cf. lope. The Anglo-Saxon loppe, a spider, is by some taken to mean ‘a flea’; but its other sense, ‘a silkworm,’ and its apparently variant lobbe, a spider (see lob), exclude this interpretation.
  5. Vaguely imitative, and associated with chop. Hence loppy.
  6. lop, v.
 

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