Definitions for: Hopper


[n] (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground
[n] terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
[n] funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below
[n] a machine used for picking hops
[n] someone who hops; "at hopscotch, the best hoppers are the children"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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. (Zo["o]l.)
(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.

Synonyms: grasshopper, ground ball, grounder, hop-picker

See Also: acridid, ball, baseball, baseball game, chop, chopper, hit, hitting, jumper, long-horned grasshopper, machine, orthopteran, orthopteron, orthopterous insect, receptacle, roller, short-horned grasshopper, striking, tettigoniid

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