hoppet

Noun

hoppet (plural hoppets)

1. (UK, dialectal) A handbasket for holding seeds while sowing.
   • Hoppets. Hand-baskets. These were used for holding seed. In March 1590, two seed-hoppets and a wisket cost 18d.; April 1592, a wisket at Tingreve and a third hoppet there cost 9d.1857, John Harland, The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the County of Lancaster, at Smithils and Gawthorpe, from Sept. 1582 to Oct. 1621, page 707
2. (UK, dialectal) A dish used by miners to measure ore.
   • The sinkers were raised and lowered in a hoppet attached to the rope.1904, Great Britain. Home Office, Mines and Quarries, page 81
   • A sinker must be appointed as hanger-on to give signals to the bank; he must also steady the hoppet whenever it has been lifted off the bottom, and must see that it has ceased to swing before he gives the signal to wind up.1904, Arnold Lupton, Mining: An Elementary Treatise on the Getting of Minerals, page 113
3. (UK, dialectal) A meadow or paddock.
   • The bowling green can be seen in the hoppet, but the windmill has been removed.1926, Edward Arthur Fitch, William Herbert Dalton, Charlotte Fell-Smith, The Essex Review, page 139
   • To Charles my tenements and lands in Rettendon , i.e. my tenement called Hadds with a little hoppet of a rood of land lying to the same , my tenement with 15 acres of customary land and 15 acres of silver land1982, Frederick George Emmison, Essex Wills (England): 1558-1565, page 149