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Word Meanings - LOPPING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cutting off, as of branches; that which is cut off; leavings. The loppings made from that stock whilst it stood. Burke.

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  • STRIPPING
    The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
  • AMPUTATION
    The act amputating; esp. the operation of cutting of a limb or projecting part of the body.
  • LOPPER
    One who lops or cuts off.
  • STRIPPER
    One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
  • LOPPARD
    A tree, the top of which has been lopped off.
  • DISMEMBERMENT
    The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m The Castilians would doubtless have resented the dismemberment of the unwieldy body of which they formed the head. Macaulay.
  • POLLARD
    1. A tree having its top cut off at some height above the ground, that may throw out branches. Pennant. 2. A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit. Camden. A fish, the chub. A stag that has cast its antlers. A hornless animal .
  • LOPPING
    A cutting off, as of branches; that which is cut off; leavings. The loppings made from that stock whilst it stood. Burke.
  • STRIPPET
    A small stream. "A little brook or strippet." Holinshed.
  • DETRUNCATION
    The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body.
  • LOPPY
    Somewhat lop; inclined to lop.
  • REAMPUTATION
    The second of two amputations performed upon the same member.
  • SLOPPINESS
    The quality or state of being sloppy; muddiness.
  • SLOPPY
    Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.
  • FLOPPY
    Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim. G. Eliot.

 

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