LOP, LOPPING
NOUNS
1624 ► DEFALCATION the act of cutting or lopping off or taking away; deduction → arch.
1626 ► SUCCISION a felling or lopping down; the act of cutting off or down → obs.
NOUNS, PERSON
1828 ► POLLER a person who lops or polls trees → obs.
VERBS
1400 ► OCHE to cut as with a blow; to lop → obs.
1449 ► POLL to cut off the top of a tree or plant; to top or head a tree a few feet from the ground so it throws out more branches; generally, to lop the branches of, to prune
1536 ► DEFALK to cut or lop off; to deduct, to subtract, to abate → obs.
1540 ► DEFALCATE to cut or lop off; to deduct, to subtract, to abate → obs.
1549 ► CROP to cut off, to lop off
1902 ► LAP to lop off branches of trees → Eng. dial.(Bk.)
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