hopper : Idioms & Phrases

Index

Bell and hopper

  • (Metal.), the apparatus at the top of a blast furnace, through which the charge is introduced, while the gases are retained.
Webster 1913

Frog hopper

  • (Zoöl.), a small, leaping, hemipterous insect living on plants. The larvæ are inclosed are frothy liquid called cuckoo spit or frog spit.
Webster 1913

Grape hopper

  • (Zoöl.), a Small yellow and red hemipterous insect, often very injurious to the leaves of the grapevine.
Webster 1913

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.
Webster 1913

Hopper closet

  • a water-closet, without a movable pan, in which the receptacle is a funnel standing on a draintrap.
Webster 1913

Hopper cock

  • a faucet or valve for flushing the hopper of a water-closet.
Webster 1913

Leaf hopper

  • (Zoöl.), any small jumping hemipterous insect of the genus Tettigonia, and allied genera. They live upon the leaves and twigs of plants. See Live hopper.
Webster 1913

plant hopper

  • noun related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plants
    planthopper.
WordNet

Rock hopper

  • noun small penguin of the Falkland Islands and New Zealand
    crested penguin.
WordNet
  • (Zoöl.), a penguin of the genus Catarractes. See under Penguin.
Webster 1913

Sand hopper

  • noun small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches
    sand flea; beach flea; sandhopper.
WordNet
  • (Zoöl.), a beach flea; an orchestian.
Webster 1913

scotch-hopper

Scotch"-hop`per noun
Definitions
  1. Hopscotch.
Webster 1913

Thorn hopper

  • (Zoöl.), a tree hopper (Thelia cratægi) which lives on the thorn bush, apple tree, and allied trees.
Webster 1913

Tree hopper

  • (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of small leaping hemipterous insects which live chiefly on the branches and twigs of trees, and injure them by sucking the sap. Many of them are very odd in shape, the prothorax being often prolonged upward or forward in the form of a spine or crest.
Webster 1913

Vine hopper

  • (Zoöl.), any one of several species of leaf hoppers which suck the sap of the grapevine, especially Erythroneura vitis. See Illust. of Grape hopper, under Grape.
Webster 1913