LOPPING

verb

1. (usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
2. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
3. To allow to hang down.

noun

1. The cutting off of branches, etc.
2. That which is cut off; leavings.