The meaning of LOP is material cut away from a tree; especially : parts discarded in lumbering.

lop1 /lɑp/ v., lopped, lop•ping. Surgery to cut off (a limb or part) from something: [~ + object + off] lopped the villain's head off. [~ + off + object] lopped off a few branches.

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

7 senses: → see lop1, lop2 1. to sever (parts) from a tree, body, etc, esp with swift strokes 2. to cut out or eliminate from.... Click for more definitions.

lopped, lopping to let hang or droop. He lopped his arms at his sides in utter exhaustion.

Multiple lineages of archaic mammals disappeared, lopped off entirely from the mammalian family tree, and others suffered major die-backs.

To lop is to cut a chunk of something off. You could lop off your long hair, or lop off the top of a Christmas tree to make it fit in your living room.

The earliest known use of the adjective lopped is in the late 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for lopped is from 1570, in the writing of Peter Levens, lexicographer.

Lopped definition: Simple past tense and past participle of <i><a>lop.</a></i>.

The word 'lopped' is correct and usable in written English. It is an adjective meaning trimmed or cut in a rough or uneven way. Example: The gardener lopped off the overgrown branches of the tree to give …