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- noun Plural form of
lopping .
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Examples
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Because of the indiscriminate head loppings that took place during the French Revolution, the "rule of the people" got a unfortunate reputation.
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The Electoral College is not democratic, but we live with it because it's a tradition, we've avoided the head loppings, and because, generally, throughout our history, the electors have "rubber stamped" rather than overruled the will of the people, as expressed through the popular vote.
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The weather for many a day and night has been so wet that the trees seem wet through, and the soft loppings and prunings of the woodman's axe can make no crash or crackle as they fall.
Archive 2004-06-01 2004
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The weather for many a day and night has been so wet that the trees seem wet through, and the soft loppings and prunings of the woodman's axe can make no crash or crackle as they fall.
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The weather for many a day and night has been so wet that the trees seem wet through, and the soft loppings and prunings of the woodman's axe can make no crash or crackle as they fall.
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“Who was it spied you on the mountains, missy, the whole of the way from the redwood-tree, although you lay senseless on the ground, and he was hard at work with the loppings?”
Erema Richard Doddridge 2004
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Foliage resulting from such loppings be used as fodder or left in the field as green manure for crops.
Chapter 6 1996
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When brought from outside, the green matter may consist of leaves, twigs, and loppings from selected trees or bushes.
1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia. 1992
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The loppings, which are designed to destroy, serve but as prunings, from which it shoots with increased vigour, and strikes its root still deeper.
A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father William Cooper
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Although the Yew -- a Conifer -- which is so thoroughly English a tree, is known to be highly poisonous as regards its leaves to the humans subject, and as concerning its loppings or half-dead branches, to oxen, horses, and asses, yet a medicinal tincture (H.) is made from the young shoots, which has distinct and curative uses.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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