hopper

hopper has 12 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• n.. One who, or that which, hops.
• n.. 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.
• n.. See Grasshopper, 2.
• n.. A game. See Hopscotch.
• n.. See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.
• n.. The larva of a cheese fly.
• n.. 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.
• n.. (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground
• n.. terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
• n.. funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below
• n.. a machine used for picking hops
• n.. someone who hops; "at hopscotch, the best hoppers are the children"