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Large funnel-shaped receptacle
Answer for the clue "Large funnel-shaped receptacle ", 6 letters:
hopper
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Word definitions for hopper in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below someone who hops; "at hopscotch, the best hoppers are the children" a machine used for picking hops [syn: hop-picker ] terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped. 2 A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes. 3 One who hops. 4 A grasshopper ...
Usage examples of hopper.
If you went outside now and a man came up to you and said he was running the hopper business, and did you want to go back in time and get away from it all, what would you say to him?
Assuming capture of a live hopper, apply interrogationtechniques to discover source of original backward momentum.
Current indications are that hopper phenomenon ceases as of year 2491.
But surely the syndicate running the hopper business was not sending back only prolets!
Presumably, any hopper who did that would wink out of existence instantly, never having been born in the first place.
Brogg had arranged the hopper data alphabetically by name, and had not sorted for date of departure or date of arrival.
It goes out to all departments that are even remotely connected with the hopper business.
It was the job of those in Class Two to plot the pitfalls for him in advance, and they had been cognizant of the hopper problem for some time now.
Now, though, came Helaine with her intuitive conviction that Lanoy was behind the hopper business.
And he might just lead Quellen to the source of the hopper enterprise.
Javan princess in order to keep her true origin from coming out, and the pretended mother yet another hopper who moved in to protect the girl when it looked likely that the Javan hoax would be exposed?
Donald Mortensen, the potential hopper who was due to skip out on May 4.
He was clever enough to foresee the time-paradox consequences that might result if somebody interfered with the departure of Mortensen, who was on the documented hopper list.
Leeward, refreshing himself in the drinker, had listened to Brand running off at the mouth about Lanoy and his hopper business.
Koll had been harrying him all week for progress on the hopper business.