a little basket, chiefly for holding seed-corn, worn by the husbandmen, in sowing, at their backs, whence a man with protuberant buttocks is compared to a man accoutered with a hoppet, and styled hoppet-arsed, vulgarly hopper-arsed. N.
·noun An infant in arms. II. Hoppet ·noun A hand basket; also, a dish used by miners for measuring ...
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