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Webster 1913 Edition
Hopper
1.
One who, or that which, hops.
2.
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. 5.
(Zool.)
(a)
See
Grasshopper
, and Frog hopper
, Grape hopper
, Leaf hopper
, Tree hopper
, under Frog
, Grape
, Leaf
, and Tree
. (b)
The larva of a cheese fly.
6.
(Naut.)
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
. Bell and hopper
(Metal.)
, the apparatus at the top of a blast furnace, through which the charge is introduced, while the gases are retained.
– Hopper boy
, a rake in a mill, moving in a circle to spread meal for drying, and to draw it over an opening in the floor, through which it falls.
– Hopper closet
, a water-closet, without a movable pan, in which the receptacle is a funnel standing on a draintrap.
– Hopper cock
, a faucet or valve for flushing the hopper of a water-closet.
Webster 1828 Edition
Hopper
HOP'PER
,Noun.
1.
Properly, a wooden trough through which grain passes into a mill; so named from its moving or shaking. But we give the name to a box or frame of boards, which receives the grain before it passes into the trough, and also to a similar box which receives apples for conducting them into a mill.1.
A vessel in which seed-corn is carried for sowing.