HOPPER

grounder, ground ball, groundball, hopper

(noun) (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground

grasshopper, hopper

(noun) terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping

hopper

(noun) funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below

hopper, hop-picker

(noun) a machine used for picking hops

hopper

(noun) someone who hops; “at hopscotch, the best hoppers are the children”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

hopper (plural hoppers)

One who or that which hops.

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

A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes.

A device that feeds material into a machine.

Various insects

A grasshopper or locust, especially

The immature form of a locust.

The larva of a cheese fly.

A leafhopper.

Any of various hesperiid butterflies.

An artificial fishing lure.

(slang) A toilet.

(music) An escapement lever in a piano.

(obsolete) The game of hopscotch.

A window with hinges at the bottom, opened by tilting vertically.

A hopper car.

(chess) A fairy chess piece which moves only by jumping over another piece.

A person or machine that picks hops.

Etymology 2

Noun

hopper (plural hoppers)

A Sri Lankan food made from a fermented batter of rice flour, coconut milk, and palm toddy or yeast.

Proper noun

Hopper

A surname.

Source: Wiktionary

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Hop"per, n. Etym: [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.)

Definition: See Grasshopper, 2.

4. pl.

Definition: 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.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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