Vocabulary : Hoper to Hoppestere

Hoper : One who hopes.
Hoping : of Hope
Hopingly : In a hopeful manner.
Hoplite : A heavy-armed infantry soldier.
Hop-o'-my-thumb : Alt. of Hop-thumb

Hopped : of Hop ;; Impregnated with hops.
Hopper : One who, or that which, hops. ;; 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. ;; See Grasshopper, 2. ;; A game. See Hopscotch. ;; See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree. ;; The larva of a cheese fly. ;; 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.
Hopperdozer : 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 : Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.
Hoppestere : 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."

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