Word Meanings - HOPPERINGS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.

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• HOPPERINGS
  Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• GRAVELING; GRAVELLING
  1. The act of covering with gravel. 2. A layer or coating of gravel .
• GRAVELESS
  Without a grave; unburied.
• GRAVELLINESS
  State of being gravelly.
• HOPPERDOZER
  An appliance for the destruction of insects, consisting of a shallow iron box, containing kerosene or coated with tar or other sticky substance, which may be mounted on wheels. (more info) because conceived as putting insects to sleep or as dosing
• HOPPER
  See PL (more info) 1. One who, or that which, hops. 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
• GRAVELLY
  Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil.
• CRADLELAND
  Land or region where one was cradled; hence, land of origin.
• GRAVEL-STONE
  A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus.
• RETAIN
  1. To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like. "Thy shape invisibleretain." Shak. Be obedient, and retain Unalterably firm his love entire. Milton. An executor
• GRAVELY
  In a grave manner.
• RETAINABLE
  Capable of being retained.
• RETAINAL
  The act of retaining; retention.
• RETAINER
  1. One who, or that which, retains. 2. One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on. 3. Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery. Cowell. 4. The act of a
• CRADLE
  An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it eventlyin a swath. (more info) Gael. creathall, Ir. craidhal, W. cryd a shaking or rocking,
• SHOPPER
  One who shops.
• ENCRADLE
  To lay in a cradle.
• GRASSHOPPER
  Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acrididæ and Locustidæ. The species and genera are very numerous. The former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust (Caloptenus spretus), noted for the great extent of its ravages in
• DISCRADLE
  To take from a cradle. This airy apparition first discradled From Tournay into Portugal. Ford.
• WHOPPER
  1. One who, or that which, whops. 2. Same as Whapper.
• CHOPPER
  One who, or that which, chops.
• CLODHOPPER
  A rude, rustic fellow.
• WHAPPER; WHOPPER
  Something uncommonly large of the kind; something astonishing; -- applied especially to a bold lie.