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hoppets

hoppets is the plural of hoppet.

Meaning of 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
  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

Questions about hoppets

What is hoppets the plural of?
Hoppets is the plural of hoppet.

Words near hoppets in the dictionary

  1. Hoppes
  2. Hoppeses
  3. hoppest
  4. hoppet
  5. hoppeth
  6. hoppets
  7. hoppier
  8. hoppiest
  9. hoppily
  10. hoppin'
  11. Hoppin' John

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