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† lop-heavy, a. Obs.
[f. lop v.2 + heavy a. Cf. top-heavy.]
Heavy with a weight which causes lopping, hanging down, or drooping.
1583Golding 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. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. x. liv. (1612) 242 That Spanish-Iewish Atheist, and Lop⁓heauie-headed Leach,..fowle Lopas, we impeach. a1652Brome 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. a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 180 When they [sc. ears of wheat] are in shock, they spread and lay over, being lop-heavy. |