How to pronounce lop

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What lop means

verb

To chop off a branch or top quickly and roughly

In a sentence: After the storm, the farmer had to lop the broken limb off the apple tree.

Where it comes from: It was made from an old noun, loppe, meaning a bough or the small branches cut from a tree.

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