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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Grig :: Grig (n.) A cricket or grasshopper.
Flosh :: Flosh (n.) A hopper-shaped box or /nortar in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps.
Shoe :: Shoe (n.) The trough or spout for conveying the grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
Whopper :: Whopper (n.) One who, or that which, whops..
Whopper :: Whopper (n.) Something uncommonly large of the kind; something astonishing; -- applied especially to a bold lie.
Hopper :: Hopper (n.) A game. See Hopscotch.
Hopper :: Hopper (n.) 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..
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
Hopper :: Hopper (n.) One who, or that which, hops..
Hemimetabolic :: Hemimetabolic (a.) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches..
Shopper :: Shopper (n.) One who shops.
Feed :: Feed (v. t.) To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal..
Tettix :: Tettix (n.) A genus of small grasshoppers.
Scotch-hopper :: Scotch-hopper (n.) Hopscotch.
Quaker :: Quaker (n.) Any grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda; -- so called from the quaking noise made during flight.
Whopper :: Whopper (n.) Same as Whapper.
Slapper :: Slapper (n.) Anything monstrous; a whopper.
Reeler :: Reeler (n.) The grasshopper warbler; -- so called from its note.
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..
Hopper :: Hopper (n.) See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree..
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