lop

present singular third person lops · participle present lopping · participle past lopped · past lopped · participle past lopt · past lopt

1. transitiveusuallyTo cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.

   Some, for hard masters, broken under arms, In battle lopt away, with half their limbs, Beg bitter bread thro’ realms their valour sav’d,

   1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I

   Synonyms: snead

2. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
3. To allow to hang down.

   to lop the head

plural lops

1. That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.

   Why, we take, From every tree, lop, bark, and part o'the timber

   1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]

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   I ſhall not trouble you about the raiſing of them of Truncheons or Lops, because I could never find them to take; only ſometimes ſome of the ſmallest Suckers, when the Sap is newly ſtirring in them, if they are ſlipt off from the Tree, will grow

   1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC

plural lops

1. GeordieA flea.

   Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.

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   Lice, That's nick name to the stuff called Lops

   1651, John Cleveland, “The Hue and Cry after Sir John Presbiter”, in Poems

plural lops

1. USdatedslang(usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.

   "He's a lop; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one."

   1935, Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men, page 5

2. Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

alternative Lob

1. A county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

   The workshop in Lop County at the edge of Taklimakan Desert is in the most impoverished part of Hotan prefecture.

   2017 November 5, “Across China: Elderly Uygur tailor finds new hope in factory work”, in Mengjie, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2019

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   The Khotan rug factory, Hotan Rayonluk Gilam Karahanisi, is situated outside the town of Khotan, in Lop county four kilometers east on the bank of the Yurunkash River.

   1979, Jan Myrdal, translated by Ann Henning, Carpets from China, Xinjiang & Tibet, Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 139

   Farther west was the ancient State of Jingjue, while the ruins of the city of Akispil, discovered in the desert northwest of Lop County, was one of the cities of the ancient State of Yutian.

   Xinjiang : the Land and the People

   1989, 郑平 [Zheng Ping], 洛安吉 [Luo Anji], transl., 新疆风物志 [Xinjiang : the Land and the People], Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62

   East of Khotan itself, we find a local culture typified by a cemetery at Sampul (Shanpula). It is located near the administrative centre of Lop County (Luopu).

   2000, J.P. Mallory, Victor H. Mair, The Tarim Mummies Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 155

   The Lop county official confirmed reports from overseas groups that the Chinese authorities were continuing a program of heavy religious control and censorship in Xinjiang.

   2004, “THE INTERNET IN CHINA: ATOOL FOR FREEDOM OR SUPPRESSION?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Committee on International Relations, page 187

   An acquaintance of Eli Ahun Qarim described the 50-something native of Lop county’s Igerchi village as a religious student with “a profound understanding of religion” who had earlier been detained for one year for teaching religion.

   2019 April 26, Paul Eckert, Shohret Hoshur, “Uyghur Inmates in Iconic Xinjiang Detention Camp Photo Identified”, in Alim Seytoff, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2019

2. A town in Lop, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

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   The attacks in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture’s Lop (Luopu) county, occurred at 9 p.m. on Monday and 8:15 a.m. on tuesday, killing three suicide attackers and three police officers and wounding four other policemen, said Osman Toxtixelil, the police chief of the Konabazar (Old Town) police station in Lop town. No bystanders were killed or injured in the attacks, he told RFA’s Uyghur Service.

   2015 May 13, Roseanne Gerin, Shohret Hoshur, “Six Dead, Four Injured in Two Successive Suicide Attacks in China’s Xinjiang”, in Shohret Hoshur, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 18 May 2015

   Synonyms: Lo-p'u, Lohpu