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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Slapper :: Slapper (n.) Anything monstrous; a whopper.
Stridulation :: Stridulation (n.) The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts..
Flosh :: Flosh (n.) A hopper-shaped box or /nortar in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps.
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..
Hopperings :: Hopperings (n.) Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.
Shoe :: Shoe (n.) The trough or spout for conveying the grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
Hopper :: Hopper (n.) One who, or that which, hops..
Tettigonian :: Tettigonian (n.) Any one of numerous species of Hemiptera belonging to Tettigonia and allied genera; a leaf hopper.
Wheatear :: Wheatear (n.) A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail..
Hopper :: Hopper (n.) See Grasshopper, 2..
Tettix :: Tettix (n.) A genus of small grasshoppers.
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..
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..
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..
Damsel :: Damsel (n.) An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hopper.
Shopper :: Shopper (n.) One who shops.
Hopper :: Hopper (n.) A game. See Hopscotch.
Saltatoria :: Saltatoria (n. pl.) A division of Orthoptera including grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets..
Spanker :: Spanker (n.) Something very large, or larger than common; a whopper, as a stout or tall person..
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