Lop
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A flea.
(2): ( v. t.) To let hang down; as, to lop the head.
(3): ( v. t.) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to sho/ - by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches.
(4): ( v. t.) To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.
(5): ( n.) That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.
(6): ( v. i.) To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
(7): ( a.) Hanging down; as, lop ears; - used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
King James Dictionary [2]
Lop, Eng. flap. The primary sense is evidently to fall or fell, or to strike down, and I think it connected with flap.
1. To cut off, as the top or extreme part of any thing to shorten by cutting off the extremities as, to lop a tree or its branches.
With branches lopp'd in wood, or mountain fell'd.
2. To cut off, as exuberances to separate, as superfluous parts.
Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts.
3. to cut partly off and bend down as, to lop the trees or saplings of a hedge. 4. To let fall to flap as, a horse lops his ears.
Lop, n. that which is cut from trees.
Else both body and lop will be of little value.
Lop, n. a flea. Local.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [3]
Isaiah 10:33 (b) God is telling us that He will cut off and destroy the enemies of Israel, the Assyrians. (See Isaiah 10:24).
