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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. 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

hopheads Hopi hoping hopingly Hopkins Hopkinson hoplite hoplites hoplitic Hoplopsyllus anomalus

Hopmann's papilloma Hopmann's polyp hopped hopped-up hopper (current term) hopper (current term) hoppers hoppier hoppiest hopping

hopping hoppings hopple hoppled hopples hoppling hoppy hops hops hopsack

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