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单词 lopper
释义 I. lopper, n.1|ˈlɒpə(r)|
[f. lop v.1 + -er1.]
One who lops (a tree).
1538Elyot Dict., Frondator, a brouser, a wodlopper [1545 wode lopper].1552Huloet, Lopper, or shragger, arborator, frondator.1572― (ed. Higgins), Hence lopper on the hautie hill, shall sing with voyce on highe.1613Jackson Creed i. xxi. §1 A great oak..spoiled of boughs by the lopper's axe.1755in Johnson.1883Leisure Hour 505/1 Beeches unscathed by topper and lopper.
II. lopper, n.2|ˈlɒpə(r)|
Sc. and north. dial. in form lapper.
[f. lopper v.]
A curdled or coagulated state or condition (of blood or milk). Also, partly-melted snow, ‘slush’.
c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. V. 345 The country became waist⁓deep of lapper or half-melted snow.1880Jamieson s.v. Lapper, The milk's into a lapper.1895Crockett Men of Moss Hags ii, The ground about was all a-lapper with blood.
III. lopper, a. Obs. exc. Sc.|ˈlɒpə(r)|
Also 4, 9 loper, 9 lapper.
[? f. lopper v.]
= loppered.
1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 459 Whar he had na other fode Bot wlatsom glet, and loper blode.1816Scott Antiq. x, Lapper-milk.1823Crabb Technol. Dict., Lopper Milk (Husband.), old milk turned to curds.a1894J. Shaw Dumfr. Dial. in Wallace Country Schoolm. (1894) 350 Loper snow, snow in a state of slush.
IV. lopper, v. Now only Sc. and north. dial.|ˈlɒpə(r)|
Forms: 4 lopir, 5 leper, 9 lapper, lopper.
[Perh. a derivative (with suffix -er5) of ON. hlǫup (hlaup) coagulation (of milk or blood). Cf. ON. hløypa trans. to curdle, Sw. löpe, Da. løbe, Norw. dial. löper, löyper rennet. Cf. lop v.4.]
1. intr. Of milk: To curdle.
a1300[see loppered].a1340Hampole Psalter cxviii. 70 As mylk in þe kynd is fayre and clere, bot in lopirynge it waxis soure.c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) vii. 27 Take a drope of bawme..and putte þerto gayte mylke; and, if þe balme be gude, alsone þe mylke sall leper.1812Forbes Poems 34 (E.D.D.) A muckle plate That ha'ds our milk to lapper.a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Lopper, to turn sour and coagulate by too long standing.
b. trans. To turn to curds; to curdle.
1882G. Macdonald Castle Warlock 13 Drinkin' soor milk—eneuch to lapper a' i' the inside o' 'im!
2. ‘To dabble, to besmear, or to cover so as to clot’ (Jam.).
1818Scott Rob Roy xxx, Sic grewsome wishes, that men should be slaughtered like sheep—and that they may lapper their hands to the elbows in their heart's bluid.
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