p. a. Impregnated with hops. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 1st Hop. ] 1. One who, or that which, hops. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mus.) See Grasshopper, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. A game. See Hopscotch. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hopper (as in grasshopper) + doze or dose; because conceived as putting insects to sleep or as dosing them with poison. ] (Agric.) An appliance for the destruction of insects, consisting of a shallow iron box, containing kerosene or coated with tar or other sticky substance, which may be mounted on wheels. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Gold Washing) Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. An unexplained epithet used by Chaucer in reference to ships. By some it is defined as “dancing (on the wave)”; by others as “opposing, ” “warlike.” T. R. Lounsbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A hand basket; also, a dish used by miners for measuring ore. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An infant in arms. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 3rd Hop. ] A gathering of hops. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hopping Dick (Zool.), a thrush of Jamaica (Merula leucogenys), resembling the English blackbird in its familiar manners, agreeable song, and dark plumage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze; -- chiefly used in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hoppled p. pr. & vb. n. Hoppling ] [ From Hop; cf. Hobble. ] 1. To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To entangle; to hamper. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]