lopping

Meanings

• Verb

  The act of cutting off branches or limbs from a tree or shrub.

  - "They went lopping to prepare the trees for winter."
  - "The arborist used a pole saw for lopping branches high up in the tree."

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Synonyms

snead

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with lopping
Dope , Hope , Mope

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Homophones

Words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling,

1. Lopping (en) : The act of cutting off branches or limbs.
   

2. Lopping (en) : A type of footwear with a high, thick sole and no heel.
   

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Variants

List of all variants of lopping that leads to same result
lop , lopped , lopping , lops

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Forms

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Lops, Lopped, Lopping

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Etymology

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Originally meant 'to shear off' or 'to clip'. Derived from the Old English word 'hlopian', meaning 'to cleave or split'.

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Trivia

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1. Lopping is also used in the production of certain types of tea, such as Darjeeling.

2. The world record for the largest tree lopped in one day is held by a team in New Zealand, who lopped a 1,100-year-old kahikatea tree in 2013.

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Related Concepts

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1. Pruning: A related concept to lopping, pruning involves selectively removing parts of a plant to improve its health, growth, and appearance.

2. Topiary: A form of gardening that involves shaping plants into decorative designs using shears or other pruning tools. Lopping is a key technique used in topiary.

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Culture

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Lopping has been a common practice in agriculture and forestry for centuries. It is used to control tree size, shape, and health. In literature, lopping is used as a metaphor for drastic change or removal, such as in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' where the trees are lopped to represent the chaos and destruction wrought by the characters.

How to Memorize "lopping"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine cutting branches off a tree with a sharp tool.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word with the act of shearing or clipping.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic by remembering the 'L' in lopping stands for 'Lop off'.

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