lop

verb

1. (transitive, usually)To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.

   “Some, for hard masters, broken under arms, In battle lopt away, with half their limbs, Beg bitter bread thro’ realms their valour sav’d,”

2. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
3. To allow to hang down.

   “to lop the head”

noun

1. That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.

   “Why, we take, From every tree, lop, bark, and part o'the timber”

   “I ſhall not trouble you about the raiſing of them of Truncheons or Lops, because I could never find them to take; only ſometimes ſome of the ſmallest Suckers, when the Sap is newly ſtirring in them, if they are ſlipt off from the Tree, will grow”

2. (Geordie)A flea.

   “Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.”

   “Lice, That's nick name to the stuff called Lops”

3. (US, dated, slang)(usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.

   “"He's a lop; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one."”

4. Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

name

1. A county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

   “The Khotan rug factory, Hotan Rayonluk Gilam Karahanisi, is situated outside the town of Khotan, in Lop county four kilometers east on the bank of the Yurunkash River.”

   “Farther west was the ancient State of Jingjue, while the ruins of the city of Akispil, discovered in the desert northwest of Lop County, was one of the cities of the ancient State of Yutian.”

   “East of Khotan itself, we find a local culture typified by a cemetery at Sampul (Shanpula). It is located near the administrative centre of Lop County (Luopu).”

   “The Lop county official confirmed reports from overseas groups that the Chinese authorities were continuing a program of heavy religious control and censorship in Xinjiang.”

   “The workshop in Lop County at the edge of Taklimakan Desert is in the most impoverished part of Hotan prefecture.”

2. A town in Lop, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

   “The attacks in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture’s Lop (Luopu) county, occurred at 9 p.m. on Monday and 8:15 a.m. on tuesday, killing three suicide attackers and three police officers and wounding four other policemen, said Osman Toxtixelil, the police chief of the Konabazar (Old Town) police station in Lop town. No bystanders were killed or injured in the attacks, he told RFA’s Uyghur Service.”