- LOPS
- Cuts (off)
- Cuts (off), as a fish head
- Chops (off)
- Trims
- Prunes
- Takes a bough?
- Does some pruning
- Droops, as rabbits' ears
- Removes as excessive
- Takes a bit from
- Hacks off
- Trims the tree
- Uses an ax
- Cuts off, as tree limbs
- Performs some tree surgery
- Trims, as a tree
- Cuts cleanly
- Cuts off, as branches
- Cuts
- Cuts short
- Hacks
- Trims, as branches
- Cuts branches from trees
- Cuts off branches
- Prunes, as branches
- Trims (off)
- Cuts off, as tree branches
- Prunes from plums, perhaps
- Removes superfluous parts.
- Trims by cutting.
- Truncates.
- Trims a tree
- Clips off.
- Tree trimmings.
- Clips.
- Hangs down loosely.
- Droops.
- Cuts off branches, twigs, etc.
- Hangs loosely
- Hangs down
- Trims branches
- Cuts, with "off"
- More than snips
- Cuts with garden shears
- Cuts, as branches
- Works on a hedgerow
- Eliminates as unnecessary
- Takes the top (off)
- Removes as superfluous
- Cuts with shears, maybe
- Slices off
- Chops off, as branches
- Severs
- Cuts (off), as a branch
- ___ off (severs)
- Hacks off, as tree limbs
- Hacks off, as branches
- Removes, as branches
- Severs, with "off"
- Cuts back
