Lopping is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LOPPING in dictionary:

VERB:
• cut off (a branch, limb, or twig) from the main body of a tree
• remove branches from (a tree)
• remove (something regarded as unnecessary or burdensome)
• hang loosely or limply; droop
• move in a loping or slouching way
NOUN:
• the act of cutting off
• branches and twigs lopped off trees
• A cutting off, as of branches; that which is cut off; leavings.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cut off branches or twigs from
• present participle of lop

Words related to LOPPING

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Words that contain LOPPING

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How to use LOPPING in a sentence

• Her motor-car, the last at the entrance, stood off at a slant, the chauffeur lopping slightly and dozing, his face scarcely above the steering-wheel.
• The sailors were soon at work hacking down the undergrowth and lopping off branches of trees.
• The growth of political institution is not so naturally stable in Ireland that the lopping down of one such institution tended to make the rest stronger or more healthy.
• No sooner were the rains over, but the stakes which I had cut from the trees, shot out like willows the first year after lopping their heads.
• I was three days in cutting it down and two more in lopping off the boughs, and reducing it to a piece of timber.
• The shore road wound along beneath me by the blue water that never receded nor advanced, lopping always the same stones.
• He used to like to go about with axe and saw, and do a little tree felling and branch lopping to please his fancy, and exercise his limbs and muscles.
• My boys are contented, and will be well when they have got over some awkward accidents in lopping and felling.
• How can I break my vow? Were it only the lopping of a hand or a foot I should not delay.
• He would think that the lopping of the grass was an attack on private property.
• On him then was to devolve the office of an executioner, that of lopping off.
• I myself have wanted many things for the people, but I never should have begun by lopping off ten millions of francs from the new civil list.
• He was laying about him lustily with his sheath-knive, lopping the canes right and left, like a reaper, and soon made quite a clearing around us.
• The pruning, which at the time cuts so into the life of the vine, lopping off great, rich branches, afterward is seen to have been the saving and enriching of the whole vine.
• Sometimes they broke their rule, and began lopping them in at half-past eight.
• Their idea of entertainment was the theatre or lopping about the long steps, listening to her chatter.
• It cannot be, therefore, supposed for one moment, that he would willingly and knowingly have aided in lopping this fair and fruitful branch from the parent tree.
• The sweetest fruit grows near the ground, and the plants that bear it require ventilation and lopping.
• Lopping off the young ears makes shorter work of it.

Similar words containing LOPP without suffix ing

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