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hopper
Note: The meadow or green grasshoppers belong to the Locustid[ae]. They have long antenn[ae], large ovipositors, and stridulating organs at the base of the wings in the male. The European great green grasshopper (Locusta viridissima) belongs to this family. The common American green species mostly belong to Xiphidium, Orchelimum, and Conocephalus. 2. In ordinary square or upright pianos of London make, the escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out and replaced with the key; -- called also the hopper. --Grove. Grasshopper engine, a steam engine having a working beam with its fulcrum at one end, the steam cylinder at the other end, and the connecting rod at an intermediate point. Grasshopper lobster (Zo["o]l.) a young lobster. [Local, U. S.] Grasshopper warbler (Zo["o]l.), cricket bird.
Hopper
Hopper Hop"per, n. [See 1st Hop.] 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. pl. A game. See Hopscotch. --Johnson. 5. (Zo["o]l.) (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.) 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.

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- The Hoppers (until 1981: Hopper Brothers and Connie) are a multi award-winning American Southern gospel singing group from North Carolina. Their music...
- Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor and film director. He is known for his roles as mentally disturbed outsiders and...
- DeWolf Hopper Jr. (January 26, 1915 – March 6, 1970) was an American stage, film, and television actor. The only child of actor DeWolf Hopper and actress...
- life. In 1933, the Museum of Modern Art gave Hopper his first large-scale retrospective. In 1930, the Hoppers rented a cottage in South Truro, on Cape Cod...
- "Pon-Pon". Space hoppers were introduced to the United Kingdom in 1969. The Cambridge Evening News contained an adverti****t for the hopper in November of...
- USS Hopper (DDG-70) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, named for the pioneering computer scientist Rear Admiral...
- Highway to the growing suburbs of Tarneit and Truganina, Hoppers Crossing stretches northwards. Hoppers Crossing is a suburb in the Wyndham area, an area rich...
- Desi Hoppers (also known as Desi Hoppers Dance Crew) is a hip-hop dance crew from Mumbai, India. Desi Hoppers were formed in 2015, with originally seven...
- loads formerly ****igned to two-bay hoppers to be ****igned to larger, more efficient three-bay hoppers. Some covered hopper cars retain the conventional centersill...