lopping
Removing tree limbs
Lopping is the act of cutting branches or limbs from trees, typically to shape growth or remove dead wood.
The term extends to any cutting that removes parts: lopping off the ends of the asparagus, lopping a few minutes off the commute.
Budget cuts are often described as lopping: They lopped twenty percent off the department's funding.
Heavy-duty cutting blades
- secateursGarden cutting tool
- branchesLimbs of trees
- deadwoodUnproductive people or things
- coppicingCutting trees to regrow
pollarding · thinning · shaping · topping · snags · boughs · overgrowth · suckers
shears
Heavy-duty cutting blades
coppicing · pollarding · thinning · shaping · topping · snags · boughs · overgrowth · suckers · canopy
shears
Heavy-duty cutting blades
anvil · bypass · hatchet · bowsaw · handsaw · ratchet · blades
arborist
Tree care specialist
woodland · timber · saplings · horticulture · landscaping · topiary · canopy · felling · clearing · woodcutting
- pruningprune, topiary, clip, hedge trimming, trim
- Shorteningsabbreviation, acronym, initialism, contraction, truncation
loppingplanting
Placing seeds in earth
grafting · cultivating · growing · propagating · nurturing