Define the word dumping scow"dumping scow" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Hopper \Hop"per\, n. [See 1st Hop.]
1. One who, or that which, hops.
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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.
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3. (Mus.) See Grasshopper, 2.
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4. pl. A game. See Hopscotch. --Johnson.
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5. (Zool.)
(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.
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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.
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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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