Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rake moving in a circle, used in mills to draw the meal over an opening in the floor, through which it falls.
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The hopper-boy is an useful machine, and so far as know, original.
Letters 1760
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"hopper-boy" attracted the stares of the rival millwrights.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various
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