collop

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: col=lop

CIDE DICTIONARY

collop, n. [Of uncertain origin; cf. OF. colp blow, stroke, piece, F. coup, fr. L. colophus buffet, cuff, Gr. ].

•  A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh.  [1913 Webster]

  "God knows thou art a collop of my flesh."  [1913 Webster]

  "Sweetbread and collops were with skewers pricked."  [1913 Webster]
•  A part or piece of anything; a portion.  [1913 Webster]

  "Cut two good collops out of the crown land."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

collop, n. a slice, esp. of meat or bacon; an escalope.

Etymology

ME, = fried bacon and eggs, of Scand. orig.

THESAURUS

collop

bit, butt, chip, chunk, clip, clipping, coat, coating, covering, crumb, cut, cutting, deal, disk, dollop, end, feuille, film, flap, foil, fold, fragment, gob, gobbet, hunk, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, leaf, lump, membrane, modicum, moiety, morsel, pane, panel, paring, particle, patina, peel, pellicle, piece, plait, plank, plate, plating, ply, plywood, rasher, safety glass, scoop, scrap, scum, shard, shaving, sheet, shiver, shred, skin, slab, slat, slice, sliver, smithereen, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, splinter, stitch, stump, table, tablet, tatter, veneer, wafer

ROGET THESAURUS

collop

Part

N part, portion, dose, item, particular, aught, any, division, ward, subdivision, section, chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse, article, passage, sector, segment, fraction, fragment, cantle, frustum, detachment, parcel, piece, lump, bit cut, cutting, chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale, lamina, small part, morsel, particle, installment, dividend, share, debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus, excerpta, member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig, runner, leaf, leaflet, stump, component part, sarmentum, compartment, department, county, fractional, fragmentary, sectional, aliquot, divided, in compartments, multifid, disconnected, partial, partly, in part, partially, piecemeal, part by part, by by installments, by snatches, by inches, by driblets, bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop, in detail, in lots.