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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hopper \hop"per\, n. see 1st hop.
1. one who, or that which, hops.
1913 webster
2. a chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an
opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any
material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its
trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining
or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a
furnace, or coal, etc., into a car.
1913 webster
3. mus. see grasshopper, 2.
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4. pl. a game. see hopscotch. --johnson.
1913 webster
5. zool.
a see grasshopper, and frog hopper, grape hopper,
leaf hopper, tree hopper, under frog, grape,
leaf, and tree.
b the larva of a cheese fly.
1913 webster
6. naut. a vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to
sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a
mechanical contrivance; -- called also dumping scow.
1913 webster
bell and hopper metal., the apparatus at the top of a
blast furnace, through which the charge is introduced,
while the gases are retained.
hopper boy, a rake in a mill, moving in a circle to spread
meal for drying, and to draw it over an opening in the
floor, through which it falls.
hopper closet, a water-closet, without a movable pan, in
which the receptacle is a funnel standing on a draintrap.
hopper cock, a faucet or valve for flushing the hopper of a
water-closet.
1913 webster
see also:
hop grasshopper hopscotch frog hopper grape hopper leaf hopper
tree hopper frog grape leaf tree
dumping scow bell and hopper hopper boy hopper closet hopper cock
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