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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



... of the Gardner and the typewriter-like clicking of the hopper burst in at the tail of the words. Captain Foley heard them, and Subalterns Grice and Murphy heard them; but there are times when a deaf ear is ...
— The Green Flag • Arthur Conan Doyle

... was a jolly miller, who lived by himself, As the wheel went round he made his wealth; One hand in the hopper, and the other in the bag, As the wheel went round he made ...
— Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories - A Book for Bairns and Big Folk • Robert Ford

... colleges became known as places "where coals are brightened and diamonds are dimmed"— before it became customary to cast potential Homers and Hannibals, Topsies and Blind Toms into the same educational hopper, and hire some gabby-Holofernes from God knows where to manipulate the mill. It was a time when men considered qualified to teach declined to waste effort on numskulls, no matter whose brats they might be. It was a time when the ...
— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... to your mother, jade-hopper!" he said, when he had done; "and tell her I'm coming round to-night, to tea, amongst ...
— Real Folks • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... thy motion proper (No thanks to wind or sail, or toiling rill) Grinding that stubborn-corn, the human will, Turn'st out men's consciences, That were begrimed before, as clean and sweet As flour from purest wheat, Into thy hopper. ...
— Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series • George Robert Aberigh-Mackay


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