Lopped
[lɔpt]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Lop
Typed by Arlene
Examples
- The ragged nests, so long deserted by the rooks, were gone; and the trees were lopped and topped out of their remembered shapes. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Twenty-two friends of high public mark, twenty-one living and one dead, it had lopped the heads off, in one morning, in as many minutes. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Yet a few hours, and Front-de-Boeuf is with his fathers--a powerful limb lopped off Prince John's enterprise. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- She needed time to get used to her maimed consciousness, her poor lopped life, before she could walk steadily to the place allotted her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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