Hopper definition
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noun 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.noun (Metal.) the apparatus at the top of a blast furnace, through which the charge is introduced, while the gases are retained.noun (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.noun See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.noun 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, into a car.noun In a double-action pianoforte movement, a piece attached to the back of a key to raise the hammer.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.noun A boat having a compartment with a movable bottom, to receive the mud or gravel from a dredging-machine and convey it to deep water, where, on opening the bottom, the mud or gravel falls out.noun A tray or basket in which a sower carries seed a seed-basket.It is now stationary, and leads the grain to the shaking-shoe. noun A trough, usually shaped like an inverted cone, through which grain or anything to be ground or crushed passes into a mill: so called because at one time it had a hopping or shaking motion.
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noun plural A game in which the players hop or leap on one leg hop-scotch.noun A saltatorial beetle one of the Halticidœ.noun A saltatorial homopterous insect a cercopid, in a broad sense: as, a frog hopper a tree- hopper.noun In brewing, a vat in which the infusion of hops is prepared to be added to the wort.
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From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.