sb. (and a.) [LOP v.2]
1. pl. Ears that droop or hang down.
1692. Lond. Gaz., No. 2805/4. A plain strong bay Gelding,… a Blase in his Face, Lop-ears.
1853. Kingsley, Hypatia, xxi. 258. The faithful Bran, whose lop-ears and heavy jaws, unique in that land of prick-ears and fox-noses, formed the absorbing subject of conversation.
2. A variety of rabbit with long drooping ears: see LOP sb.7 Also attrib.
1877. C. Rayson, Rabbits, xiii. 67. The Lop-ear.
1884. R. O. Edwards, Rabbits, vii. 52. The Lop-ear has often been termed the Prince of all rabbits.
1901. ‘Ian Maclaren,’ Yng. Barbarians, iv. 92. ‘Did ye say rabbits?’… ‘Lop-ears,’ said Nestie…. ‘Lop-ear rabbits, and he feeds them himself.’
