HOP'PER, n. [See Hop.] One who hops, or leaps on one leg.
1. Properly, a wooden trough through which grain passes into a mill; so named from its moving or shaking. but we give the name to a box or frame of boards, which receives the grain before it passes into the trough, and also to a similar box which receives apples for conducting them into a mill.
1. A vessel in which See d-corn is carried for sowing.
