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  • adjective That has not been lopped.

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un- +‎ lopped

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Examples

  • Behind the hut stood three old fir trees, with long, thick, unlopped branches.

    Heidi 2000

  • Scores of trees they left to lie and encumber the ground: others they dragged, unlopped, to the entrenchment, and piled them before it, trunks inward and radiating from its angles; lacing their boughs together or roughly pointing them with a few strokes of the axe.

    Fort Amity Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • He dropped on one knee, and taking aim from a steady rest through the unlopped branches of a felled tree, fired, and at once stood up to look.

    Lord Jim 1900

  • He dropped on one knee, and taking aim from a steady rest through the unlopped branches of a felled tree, fired, and at once stood up to look.

    Lord Jim 1899

  • He dropped on one knee, and taking aim from a steady rest through the unlopped branches of a felled tree, fired, and at once stood up to look.

    Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1890

  • The far-seen elms under which Byron dreamed [4] were still in their unlopped glory, and the whole effect of the Hill was wooded.

    Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography George William Erskine Russell 1886

  • Of the bright weather and fresh wind which carried them westward many days it would be tedious to tell, and indeed little that was strange did they see at that time, save it were a small bird flying high athwart their course, and a tree, with its branches and green leaves unlopped, which lay in the swing of the wave; but whither and whence the bird was flying, or where that tree grew in soil, they could not guess.

    A Child's Book of Saints William Canton 1909

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