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hopper(1) (iou) and dense spleen (medicine)


hopper(1) (iou)



hopper noun1. ME.
[from HOP verb1 + -ER1. Connection of sense 4 unkn.]
A person who hops, leaps, or dances. ME.
b. Baseball. A ball which having been struck rebounds from the ground. US slang. M20.
An animal characterized by hopping; esp. an insect that hops, as a grasshopper, a flea, a cheese-maggot, a young locust. ME.
In milling, a cone-shaped receptacle, orig. operated with a hopping motion, used to receive the material to be ground; any of various devices that resemble this in use or shape. ME.
A basket, esp. one used by a sower for carrying seed. Now only Scot. & dial. ME.
A barge which carries away mud or gravel from a dredging-machine and discharges it at sea through an opening in its bottom. M18.
A railway truck able to discharge coal, gravel, etc., through its floor. M19.
A funnel-shaped or conical hollow. M19.
A mechanism in a piano which regulates the movement of the hammer of a key. Also called grasshopper. M19.
Comb.: hopper-barge = sense 5 above; hopper-car = sense 6 above; hopper-dredge, hopper-dredger a vessel combining the functions of a hopper and a dredger.

dense spleen (medicine)


dense spleen
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