lopper

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When Paul Harrison took over Kelmscott-based tree lopper, Beaver Tree Services, in 1999, he had neither the expertise to build a company nor the experience to successfully deal with a recession.

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  1. One who lops.
  2. Curdled; clotted; coagulated: as, lopper milk. Dwellyd in a dark dungeon, And in a foul slede of corupcion, When he had na other fode But wlatsom glet and loper [var. lopyrde] blode. Hampole, Prick of Conscience, l. 459.
  3. To curdle or coagulate, as milk which has become sour; clot. [Prov. Eng. and U. S., where sometimes lobber.] Of his mouth a petuus thing to se The lopprit blude in ded thraw voydis be. Gavin Douglas, Æneid, x. 328.

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  1. from lop + -er.
  2. from Middle English loper, curdled, coagulated; cf. Dutch lobberig, gelatinous, Danish dial. lubber, anything coagulated; prob. ult. from Anglo-Saxon hleápan, leap, run, etc., = Icelandic hlaupa, run, curdle: see leap and lopper, v., and cf. lop, lope, loop, loupe, from the same ult. source; cf. also runnet, rennet, from run, curdle: see run, etc.
  3. In another form lobber; Scots also lapper; from Middle English loperen (in verbal noun loperyng and participial adjective lopered, etc.); cf. German dial. lübbern, German liefern, geliefern, curdle; a freq. form (whence the later simple form loppe) connected with lopper, a., and ult. with leap, run: see lopper, a.
 

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