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Definition of Hopper

1. Noun. Funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below.

2. Noun. Someone who hops. "At hopscotch, the best hoppers are the children"

3. Noun. A machine used for picking hops.

4. Noun. Terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping.

5. Noun. (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground.

Definition of Hopper

1. n. One who, or that which, hops.

Definition of Hopper

1. Noun. A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped. ¹

2. Noun. One who hops. ¹

3. Noun. The immature form of a locust ¹

4. Noun. An artificial fishing lure ¹

5. Noun. An escapement lever in a piano; a grasshopper. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hopper

1. one that hops [n -S] - See also: hops

Medical Definition of Hopper

1. 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. See Grasshopper. 4. A game. See Hopscotch. 5. See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree. The larva of a cheese fly. 6. 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, 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. See: 1st Hop. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hopper

hoplitic hoplo- hoplochrism hoplochrisme hoplon hoplons hoplophobe hoplophobes hoplophobia hoplophobic

hopologist hopologists hopped hopped-up hopped up hopper (current term) hopper crystal hopperings hoppers hoppet

hoppier hoppiest hoppiness hopping mad hoppings hoppity hopple hoppled hopples

Literary usage of Hopper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1910)
"If you are of opinion that the plaintiff is not the original inventor of the hopper-boy, he cannot obtain a verdict on that claim, unless his is an excepted ..."

2. The Young Mill-wright and Miller's Guide: Illustrated by Twenty-eight by Oliver Evans, Cadwallader Evans, Thomas Ellicott (1860)
"When the meal elevator is set in motion to elevate the meal, the hopper-boy must be set in motion also, to spread and cool it; and as soon as the circle is ..."

3. The Car-builder's Dictionary: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms which ...by Master Car-Builders' Association, Matthias Nace Forney, Arthur Mellen Wellington, Leander Garey, Calvin A. Smith by Master Car-Builders' Association, Matthias Nace Forney, Arthur Mellen Wellington, Leander Garey, Calvin A. Smith (1895)
"The four-wheeled hopper-bottom cars are being superseded by eight-wheeled gondola cars ... A hopper-bottom car should be distinguished from a drop-bottom. ..."

4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"Within the central opening of the top portion 9, of the shell, a charcoal hopper, a' (Figs. 22, 23, 24). is supported : this is constructed with a conical ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The hopper ¡s carried on two Knife- edges, one on each side, and is prevented ... The knife-edges on which the hopper rests arc on two -horizontal levers, ..."

6. Onondaga, Or, Reminiscences of Earlier and Later Times: Being a Series of by Joshua Victor Hopkins Clark (1840)
"JASPER hopper was born in the city of New-York, on the 10th of June, 1770 ... The name of the father of Andrew hopper, was John, who was a Lieutenant in Gen ..."

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