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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1427, 1500-1566, 1625
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Hopper, n. Also: -ar, -ir, -yr. [ME. hoper, -ur (c 1386), f. Hop v. A later var. is Happer.]
1. A hopper, the receptacle for grain passing into a mill.1427 Melville Chart. 245.
Thai sal be next in the hoppyr qwhays corn sa euire be thare in 1512 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 109.
I sall … caus the sukkyne … till wphald the hoppar 1558–9 Edinb. Old Acc. I. 292.
[For the Malt Mill,] Item, rowingis to the hopper 1566 Protocol Book of W. Douglas 81 b.
The forsaid landis … to be knawin to the samyn … be thak and raip, clape and hoppir, … as ws is in sic thingis 1625 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 563.
That thair salbe no servandis in the said mylne bot onlie … ane servant for the hopper
b. attrib. Shaped like a hopper. (Cf. Happerars'd a.)c1500-c1512 Dunb. lx. 55.
With hoppir hippis, and henches narrow
2. Some similar contrivance in a stable, ? for supplying grain to the mangers.1539-41 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I. 290.
For ... vi dalis for grathing of maingeris and hopperis
