No Encyclopedia Entry for Hopper Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language 1. (n.) One who, or that which, hops. 2. (n.) 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. 3. (n.) See Grasshopper. 4. (n.) A game. See Hopscotch. 5. (n.) See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree. 6. (n.) The larva of a cheese fly. 7. (n.) 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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