Loppet. (1) v. The same as Lope. (2) v. To idle about, to slouch about. 'A girt veller, allus a loppetin' about.'—N.W. Cf. Sloppet.
Loppetty. Weak, out of sorts.—N.W.
Lords-and-Ladies. Arum maculatum, L., Cuckoo-pint (A.B.).—N. & S.W.
Lot. To reckon, expect, think. 'I do lot her's a bad 'un.'—N.W.
Lot-meads. (1) Common meadows divided into equal-sized pieces, for the hay of which lots were cast each year (D.).—N.W., obsolete.
'"Lot Mead" is not an uncommon name of fields in Wiltshire parishes. It is perhaps a vestige of the original partition of lands when cleared, which the chronicler Simeon of Durham says were distributed by lot. See Kemble's Anglo-Saxons, i. 91.'—Jackson's Aubrey, note, p. 198.
(2) A kind of festival in connexion with this division.
'Here [at Wanborough] is a Lott-mead celebrated yearly with great ceremony. The Lord weareth a garland of flowers: the mowers at one house have always a pound of beefe and a head of garlic every man.'—Jackson's Aubrey, p. 198.
Nothing more appears to be known about this festival.—N.W. (Wanborough), obsolete.
*Lottle. v. To sound as water trickling in a small stream. Cf. Glox.—N.W.