The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hoppestere
Hoppestere \Hop`pes*tere"\, a.
An unexplained epithet used by Chaucer in reference to ships.
By some it is defined as ``dancing (on the wave)''; by others
as ``opposing,'' ``warlike.''
--T. R. Lounsbury.
Usage examples of "hoppestere".
Yet saugh I brent the shippes hoppesteres, The hunte strangled with the wilde beres, The sowe freten the child right in the cradel, The cook yscalded, for al his longe ladel.