4. pl.
Defn: A game. See Hopscotch. Johnson.
5. (Zoöl.) (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.)
Defn: 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.
HOPPERDOZER Hop"per*doz`er, n. [Hopper (as in grasshopper) + doze or dose; because conceived as putting insects to sleep or as dosing them with poison.] (Agric.)
Defn: 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.
HOPPERINGS
Hop"per*ings, n. (Gold Washing)
Defn: Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.
HOPPESTERE
Hop`pes*tere", a.