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North German and Dutch
North German and Dutch : variant of Hopp.South German : nickname from dialect hoppen ‘to hop’ (a variant of standard German hüpfen).Danish : from North German Hopp (see Hopf), or the Danish byname Hoppe ‘horse’, ‘mare’.English : metonymic form of Hopper 1.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : occupational name for a professional tumbler or acrobat, or a nickname for a restless individual with plenty of energy, Middle English hoppere, an agent derivative of Old English hoppian ‘to hop’.German : nickname from an agent derivative of Middle High German, Middle Low German hoppen ‘to limp or stumble’.Dutch : occupational name for a hop grower or seller, from Middle Dutch hoppe ‘hop(s)’ + the agent suffix -er.
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Hopscotch.
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A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers.
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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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In ordinary square or upright pianos of London make, the escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out and replaced with the key; -- called also the hopper.
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The larva of a cheese fly.
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A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed.
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The trough or spout for conveying the grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
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An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hopper.
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See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.
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That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of Bell.
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Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.
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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.
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A hopper-shaped box or /nortar in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps.
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See Grasshopper, 2.
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To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal.
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Any one of numerous species of Hemiptera belonging to Tettigonia and allied genera; a leaf hopper.
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A game. See Hopscotch.
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One who, or that which, hops.
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In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill; -- called also hopper.