[f. LOP v.2 + -ING2.]

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  1.  Of the ears: That lop or hang down.

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1685.  Lond. Gaz., No. 2099/4. A gray Horse with a large Head and lopping Ears.

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1770.  G. White, Selborne, xxviii. 79. The ears [of the moose] were vast and lopping.

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1792.  W. Roberts, Looker-on, No. 20 (1794), I. 279. The Land of Secrets, where dwell a people with long lopping ears and little gimlet eyes.

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1868.  Darwin, Anim. & Pl., I. iv. 119. The left zygomatic arch on the side of the lopping ear.

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  2.  Of an angler’s fly.

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1885.  W. H. Russell, in Harper’s Mag., April, 769/1. With limber rod and far-reaching lopping fly.

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