Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To hop.
- noun A hand-basket.
- noun In mining, the dish used by miners to measure ore in.
- noun 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.
- noun An infant in arms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. A hand basket; also, a dish used by miners for measuring ore.
- noun Prov. Eng. An infant in arms.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dialect A
handbasket . - noun UK, dialect A
dish used byminers tomeasure ore . - noun UK, dialect An infant in arms.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Vad lyckan bröt, kan hon försona, och hoppet bär en konungs krona.
Fritiofs Saga Esaias Tegn��r 1814
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Där är hon själv, som hoppet skön och trogen som ett barndomsminne; hon kominer med min kärleks lön.
Fritiofs Saga Esaias Tegn��r 1814
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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.
E24 Senaste nytt 2009
hernesheir commented on the word hoppet
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