Peets is fond of ampytations, that a-way, and he lops off said limb with zest an' gusto.
"Wolfville Nights"
Alfred Lewis
At noon with Mr. Moore to the Coffee-house, where among other things the great talk was of the effects of this late great wind; and I heard one say that he had five great trees standing together blown down; and, beginning to lop them, one of them, as soon as the lops were cut off, did, by the weight of the root, rise again and fasten.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke
Arm'd with a pruning hook, he one appears Who lops the vines.
"The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II"
Ovid