hopper
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Noun (5)hoppers
- funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle belowType of receptacle
- someone who hops“at hopscotch, the best hoppers are the children”Type of jumper
- a machine used for picking hopsSynonyms: hop-pickerType of machine
- terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leapingSynonyms: grasshopperType of orthopterous insect, orthopteronKinds short-horned grasshopper, long-horned grasshopper
- (baseball) a hit that travels along the groundSynonyms: grounderground ballgroundballType of hit, hittingKinds chop, roller
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: See 1st Hop.
1. One who, or that which, hops.
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.
3. Music See Grasshopper, 2.
4. pl. A game. See Hopscotch. Dr. Samuel Johnson
5. Zoology (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.
6. Nautical 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.
Bell and hopper Metallurgy, 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.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54