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Grig :: Grig (n.) A cricket or grasshopper.

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..

Shoe :: Shoe (n.) The trough or spout for conveying the grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.

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..

Reeler :: Reeler (n.) The grasshopper warbler; -- so called from its note.

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..

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..

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..

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.

Clodhopper :: Clodhopper (n.) A rude, rustic fellow..

Orthoptera :: Orthoptera (n. pl.) An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, etc. See Illust. under Insect..

Whopper :: Whopper (n.) Something uncommonly large of the kind; something astonishing; -- applied especially to a bold lie.

Hopper :: Hopper (n.) A game. See Hopscotch.

Saltatoria :: Saltatoria (n. pl.) A division of Orthoptera including grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets..

Whopper :: Whopper (n.) Same as Whapper.

Hopperings :: Hopperings (n.) Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.

Hemimetabolic :: Hemimetabolic (a.) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches..

Spanker :: Spanker (n.) Something very large, or larger than common; a whopper, as a stout or tall person..

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