Hopper

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun ·see Grasshopper, 2.

II. Hopper ·noun The larva of a cheese fly.

III. Hopper ·noun One who, or that which, hops.

IV. Hopper ·noun A game. ·see Hopscotch.

V. Hopper ·noun ·see Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.

VI. Hopper ·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.

VII. Hopper ·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.

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