Hopper

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1. Noun

One who, or that which, hops.

2. Noun

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.

3. Noun

See Grasshopper, 2.

4. Noun

A game. See Hopscotch.

5. Noun

See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.

6. Noun

The larva of a cheese fly.

7. Noun

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.

8. Noun

terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
Vocabulary classified under Biology

9. Noun

a machine used for picking hops
Vocabulary classified under Engineering
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