a. Obs. [f. LOP v.2 + HEAVY a. Cf. top-heavy.] Heavy with a weight that causes lopping, hanging down, or drooping.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut. v. 29. We doe but creepe vppon the Earth, or rather be so loppeheauie [F. si pesans] that wee sinke still downeward.
1602. Warner, Alb. Eng., X. liv. (1612), 242. That Spanish-Iewish Atheist, and Lop-heauie-headed Leach,… fowle Lopas, we impeach.
a. 1652. Brome, Queene’s Exch., II. ii. Wks. 1873, III. 478. It is indeed a divelish Lopheavy Bell. I would the Churchwarden that Should have mended it … were Hang’d in’s place.
a. 1722. Lisle, Husb. (1757), 180. When they [sc. ears of wheat] are in shock, they spread and lay over, being lop-heavy.
