dumping scow

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dumping scow - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hopper \Hop"per\, n. [See 1st Hop.]
     1. One who, or that which, hops.
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     2. A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an
        opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any
        material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its
        trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining
        or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a
        furnace, or coal, etc., into a car.
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     3. (Mus.) See Grasshopper, 2.
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     4. pl. A game. See Hopscotch. --Johnson.
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     5. (Zool.)
        (a) See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper,
            Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape,
            Leaf, and Tree.
        (b) The larva of a cheese fly.
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     6. (Naut.) A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to
        sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a
        mechanical contrivance; -- called also dumping scow.
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     Bell and hopper (Metal.), the apparatus at the top of a
        blast furnace, through which the charge is introduced,
        while the gases are retained.
  
     Hopper boy, a rake in a mill, moving in a circle to spread
        meal for drying, and to draw it over an opening in the
        floor, through which it falls.
  
     Hopper closet, a water-closet, without a movable pan, in
        which the receptacle is a funnel standing on a draintrap.
        
  
     Hopper cock, a faucet or valve for flushing the hopper of a
        water-closet.
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