Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Curdled; clotted; coagulated: as, lopper milk.
- To curdle or coagulate, as milk which has become sour; clot.
- noun One who lops.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who lops or cuts off.
- intransitive verb To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To turn
sour andcoagulate from too long standing, as milk. - noun A person who
lops . - noun A
gardening tool used forlopping
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees
Etymologies
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Examples
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We got the same odd feeling when we put the lopper on the cashiers conveyor belt.
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So the lopper had to go to the rack on the bottom of the cart.
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However it felt very strange throwing my oven roasted turkey into the same cart as my tree limb lopper.
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In his left claw Zavala clutched the lopper, but it soon became clear to him that his opponent was not going to stay still long enough for Zavala to cut a zipper as intended.
SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000
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In his left claw Zavala clutched the lopper, but it soon became clear to him that his opponent was not going to stay still long enough for Zavala to cut a zipper as intended.
SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000
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When the lopper had laid it bare and the woodcutters had sapped its base, five men commenced hauling at the rope attached to the top.
Original Short Stories — Volume 03 Guy de Maupassant 1871
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When the lopper had laid it bare and the woodcutters had sapped its base, five men commenced hauling at the rope attached to the top.
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant Guy de Maupassant 1871
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When the lopper had laid it bare, had finished its toilets for the guillotine, when the woodcutters were about to sap its base, five men commenced hauling at the rope attached to the top.
The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 (of 8) Une Vie and Other Stories Guy de Maupassant 1871
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And when the lopper had finished his task, he left at the top of the straight slender shaft of the tree the rope collar which he had brought up with him, and afterwards descends again with spurlike prods along the discrowned trunk, which the woodcutters thereupon attacked at the base, striking it with great blows which resounded through all the rest of the wood.
The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 (of 8) Une Vie and Other Stories Guy de Maupassant 1871
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A tree lopper has died after a tree fell on him in Tasmania's Tamar Valley.
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