Definition of hopper

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Hopper (n.) 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..

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Whopper :: Whopper (n.) Something uncommonly large of the kind; something astonishing; -- applied especially to a bold lie.
Shopper :: Shopper (n.) One who shops.
Tettigonian :: Tettigonian (n.) Any one of numerous species of Hemiptera belonging to Tettigonia and allied genera; a leaf hopper.
Orthoptera :: Orthoptera (n. pl.) An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, etc. See Illust. under Insect..
Grasshopper :: Grasshopper (n.) In ordinary square or upright pianos of London make, the escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out and replaced with the key; -- called also the hopper..
Flosh :: Flosh (n.) A hopper-shaped box or /nortar in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps.
Damsel :: Damsel (n.) An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hopper.
Saltatoria :: Saltatoria (n. pl.) A division of Orthoptera including grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets..
Reeler :: Reeler (n.) The grasshopper warbler; -- so called from its note.
Whopper :: Whopper (n.) One who, or that which, whops..
Chopper :: Chopper (n.) One who, or that which, chops..
Hopper :: Hopper (n.) See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree..
Grasshopper :: Grasshopper (n.) Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acrididae and Locustidae. The species and genera are very numerous. The former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust (Caloptenus spretus), noted for the great extent of its ravages in the region beyond the Mississippi. In the Eastern United States the red-legged (Caloptenus femurrubrum and C. atlanis) are closely related species, but their ravages are less important. They are closely related to the migratory locusts o
Clapper :: Clapper (n.) That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of Bell..
Locust :: Locust (n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acrididae, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda, / Pachytylus, migratoria, and Acridium perigrinum, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the United States the related species with similar habits are usually called grasshoppers. See Grasshopper..
Hopper :: Hopper (n.) 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..
Tettix :: Tettix (n.) A genus of small grasshoppers.
Hopper :: Hopper (n.) See Grasshopper, 2..
Scotch-hopper :: Scotch-hopper (n.) Hopscotch.
Hopperings :: Hopperings (n.) Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.
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