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  • English Word Hopper Definition 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.
  • English Word Hopper Definition See Grasshopper, 2.
  • English Word Hopper Definition A game. See Hopscotch.
  • English Word Hopper Definition See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.
  • English Word Hopper Definition The larva of a cheese fly.
  • English Word Hopper 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.
  • English Word Hopperings Definition Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.
  • English Word Hoppestere Definition An unexplained epithet used by Chaucer in reference to ships. By some it is defined as "dancing (on the wave)"; by others as "opposing," "warlike."
  • English Word Hoppet Definition A hand basket; also, a dish used by miners for measuring ore.
  • English Word Hoppet Definition An infant in arms.
  • English Word Hopping Definition of Hop
  • English Word Hopping Definition The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
  • English Word Hopping Definition A gathering of hops.
  • English Word Hopple Definition To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse.
  • English Word Hopple Definition Fig.: To entangle; to hamper.
  • English Word Hopple Definition A fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze; -- chiefly used in the plural.
  • English Word Hopplebush Definition Same as Hobblebush.
  • English Word Hoppled Definition of Hopple
  • English Word Hoppling Definition of Hopple
  • English Word Hoppo Definition A collector of customs, as at Canton; an overseer of commerce.
  • English Word Hoppo Definition A tribunal or commission having charge of the revenue derived from trade and navigation.
  • English Word Hopscotch Definition A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers.
  • English Word Hopyard Definition A field where hops are raised.
  • English Word Horal Definition Of or pertaining to an hour, or to hours.
  • English Word Horaly Definition Hourly.
  • English Word Horary Definition Of or pertaining to an hour; noting the hours.
  • English Word Horary Definition Occurring once an hour; continuing an hour; hourly; ephemeral.
  • English Word Horatian Definition Of or pertaining to Horace, the Latin poet, or resembling his style.
  • English Word Horde Definition A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude.
  • English Word Hordeic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, barley; as, hordeic acid, an acid identical or isomeric with lauric acid.