Obs. Forms: 1, 5 loppe, 7– lop. [OE. loppe wk. fem., of obscure origin. Cf. LOB sb.1] A spider.

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c. 888.  K. Ælfred, Boeth., xvi. § 2. ʓe furþum þeos lytle loppe hine [sc. man] hwilum deadne ʓedeþ.

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c. 1000.  Ælfric, Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 121/27. Loppe, fleonde næddre, uel attorcoppe.

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c. 1391.  Chaucer, Astrol., I. § 3. Shapen in manere of a net or of a webbe of a loppe. Ibid., § 19. From this senyth … ther come a maner krokede strikes like to the clawes of a loppe.

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c. 1400.  Ragman Roll, 72, in Hazlitt, E. P. P., I. 72. Ye lade longe sydyde as a loppe.

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