Hopper

n.	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.
	3.	(Mus.) See Grasshopper, 2.
	4.	A game. See Hopscotch.
	5.	(Zool.) See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.
	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.

Noun	1.	hopper - funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below
	2.	hopper - someone who hops; "at hopscotch, the best hoppers are the children"
	3.	hopper - a machine used for picking hops Synonyms: hop-picker
	4.	hopper - terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping Synonyms: grasshopper
	5.	hopper - (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground Synonyms: ground ball, groundball, grounder

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