HOPPER
\hˈɒpə], \hˈɒpə], \h_ˈɒ_p_ə]\
Definitions of HOPPER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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someone who hops; "at hopscotch, the best hoppers are the children"
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funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below
By Princeton University
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someone who hops; "at hopscotch, the best hoppers are the children"
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funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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One who, or that which, hops.
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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.
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See Grasshopper, 2.
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A game. See Hopscotch.
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See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.
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The larva of a cheese fly.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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One who, or that which, hops.
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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.
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See Grasshopper, 2.
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A game. See Hopscotch.
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See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.
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The larva of a cheese fly.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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One who hops: a wooden trough through which grain passes into a mill, so called from its hopping or shaking motion: a vessel in which seedgrain is carried for sowing: a hop-picker. Dickens.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. One who hops;—a wooden trough through which grain passes into a mill by jolting or shaking;—a vessel in which seed-corn is carried for sowing;—a conical vessel filled with sand and water, and suspended over a glass-cutter's wheel;—an iron steam barge into which the useless matter raised by the dredging machine in a river or harbour is put, carried out to sea, and dropped by opening the hinges of this bottom.
