Definition of Hoppir
Hop"per (?), n. [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. (Mus.) See Grasshopper,
2.
4. pl. A game. See
Hopscotch. Johnson.
5. (Zoöl.) (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. (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.
Bell and hopper (Metal.), 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 Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- temporary storage bin, filled from top and emptied from bottom, often funnel-shaped.
- one who hops
- (localism, or slang) a toilet's water tank/toilet seat
- He got off the hopper just as the phone rang.
- Name given to an artificial fishing lure
- To catch a big fish, use a hopper that jumps across the pond surface.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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