Bible Dictionaries
Hopper

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The larva of a cheese fly.

(2):

(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.

(3):

(n.) See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.

(4):

(n.) A game. See Hopscotch.

(5):

(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.

(6):

(n.) See Grasshopper, 2.

(7):

(n.) One who, or that which, hops.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Hopper'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​h/hopper.html. 1828.