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Hopper   /hˈɑpər/   Listen
Hopper

noun
1.
Funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below.
2.
Someone who hops.
3.
A machine used for picking hops.  Synonym: hop-picker.
4.
Terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping.  Synonym: grasshopper.
5.
(baseball) a hit that travels along the ground.  Synonyms: ground ball, groundball, grounder.



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"Hopper" Quotes from Famous Books



... eyes on a shabby old man who was crossing the end of the street, and saw Hopper, the sheriff's officer. ...
— The Channings • Mrs. Henry Wood

... and the great hopper full of grain lay ready for the miller, they found themselves alone in the barn for a minute. The girls and Janet had gone to milk, and Hastings with them. There was a lantern in the barn, which showed Rachel in the swirl of the corn dust ...
— Harvest • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... wherein I see Matrimony come loaden with kisses to salute me! Now let me alone to pick the Mill, to fill the hopper, to take the tole, to mend the sails, yea, and to make the mill to go with the very ...
— Fair Em - A Pleasant Commodie Of Faire Em The Millers Daughter Of - Manchester With The Love Of William The Conquerour • William Shakespeare [Apocrypha]

... of which there are many, we find a portrait of Dickens that is new to us. Never have we seen one that so vividly reproduced the novelist as one of us saw him, and heard him read, in the Town Hall at Birmingham, on the 10th of May, 1866. It is a vignette photograph by Watkins, coloured by Mr. J. Hopper, a local artist, representing the face of the novelist in full, wearing afternoon dress—black coat, and white shirt-front, with gold studs—the attitude being perfectly natural and unconstrained, and a pleasant calm upon the otherwise firm features. The ...
— A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land • William R. Hughes

... bodies. Rubbish was scattered about the grassless yard; a bench stood near the door with a tin wash basin on it and a pail of water and a gourd; a cat had begun to drink from the pail, but the exertion was overtaxing her energies, and she had stopped to rest. There was an ash-hopper by the fence, and an iron ...
— The Gilded Age, Part 1. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner


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