Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To hop.
- n. A hand-basket.
- n. In mining, the dish used by miners to measure ore in.
- n. In glass-making, a conical vessel suspended from the ceiling, containing sand and water for the use of the cutter: sometimes called a hopper, from its resemblance to the hopper of a mill.
- n. An infant in arms.
Wiktionary
- n. UK, dialect A handbasket.
- n. UK, dialect A dish used by miners to measure ore.
- n. UK, dialect An infant in arms.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Prov. Eng. A hand basket; also, a dish used by miners for measuring ore.
- n. Prov. Eng. An infant in arms.
Examples
“Vad lyckan bröt, kan hon försona, och hoppet bär en konungs krona.”
“Där är hon själv, som hoppet skön och trogen som ett barndomsminne; hon kominer med min kärleks lön.”
“Lista | Problemen som SAS vd måste ta itu med nu SAS betraktas som ett av Europas iskallaste flygbolag och hoppet om en strukturaffär med Lufthansa är nu helt borta.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hoppet’.
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A Provincial Glossary, 1787
A list of provincial English words that appear in Francis Grose's A Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of Local Proverbs and Popular Superstitions. London, MDCCLXXXVII. Printed for S. Hooper, N...
tharky, velling, cadma, whinnock, caingel, giglet, gill-houter, leasing, leech-way, dellfin, underwood, dilvered and 193 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir A little basket, chiefly for holding seed-corn, worn by the husbandmen, in sowing, at their backs, whence a man with protuberant buttocks is compared to a man accoutred with a hoppet, and styled hoppet-arsed, vulgarly hopper-arsed.
An old provincial term from the north of England. May 2, 2011