LOP, Eng. flap. The primary sense is evidently to fall or fell, or to strike down, and I think it connected with flap.
1. To cut off, as the top or extreme part of any thing to shorten by cutting off the extremities as, to lop a tree or its branches.
With branches lopp'd in wood, or mountain fell'd.
2. To cut off, as exuberances to separate, as superfluous parts.
Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts.
3. to cut partly off and bend down as, to lop the trees or saplings of a hedge.
4. To let fall to flap as, a horse lops his ears.
LOP, n. that which is cut from trees.
Else both body and lop will be of little value.
LOP, n. a flea. Local.