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▪ I. hoppet1 Chiefly north. dial.|ˈhɒpɪt| Also 7– hobbet, 9 hoppett, -itt. [? f. hopper1 with dim. suffix. Cf. also hobbet.] 1. A basket, esp. a small hand-basket.
1671Skinner Etym. Angl., Hoppet, vox agro Linc. usitatissima significat autem Corbem seu Calathum quo fructus circumferunt. 1674Ray N.C. Words 26 A Hoppet, a little Handbasket. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 392/1 An Hoppet, or Hobbet..is a Vessel of wood to carry corn in by him that soweth the same. 1787Grose Prov. Gloss., Hoppet, a little basket, chiefly for holding seed-corn, worn by the husbandmen, in sowing, at their backs, whence a man with protuberant buttocks is compared to a man accoutered with a hoppet, and stiled hoppet-arsed, vulgarly hopper⁓arsed. 1828Craven Dial., Hoppit, a little basket. 1847–78Halliwell, Hoppet,..the dish used by miners to measure their ore in. 1886S.W. Linc. Gloss., Hoppet, a small hand⁓basket with lids. ‘She has ta'en a hoppet with her lunch.’ 2. A large bucket, used for lowering and raising men and materials in the shaft of a mine or other excavation.
1865Ann. Reg. 3 The engineer was astonished to find that the hoppet containing the men stopped in the shaft. 1888Times 9 Apr. 6/5 The hoppet is a large iron bucket fastened by three hooks and chains to the rope. 1890Pall Mall G. 8 Sept. 3/1 The workmen are raised by means of a ‘hoppett’, which a steam engine lifts or lowers as required. 1897Times 10 Mar. 13/6 One hoppit came up with débris showing slight dampness. 3. A bee-hive; also bee-hoppet. dial. ▪ II. ˈhoppet2 local. [? dim. of hope n.2] 1. An enclosure; a yard, paddock, or the like.
1701Deed [relating to properties called] ‘a Barn and Hoppett’. 1864Gd. Words 581/2 There is a hoppet big enough for the run of a pony. 1867Crim. Chronol. York Castle 153 Crowther and Hoyle were interred in the hoppet at the back of the Castle. 2. A gaol or prison. [May perh. belong to prec. word: cf. cage, coop similarly used.]
1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Hoppet, the jail. ‘They were putten i' t' hoppet’, imprisoned. ▪ III. ˈhoppet3 north. dial. [dim. from hop v.1] An infant in arms.
1695Kennett Par. Antiq. II. Gloss. s.v. Tremuta, A young child danced in the arms is by metaphor called a little hoppet. 1828Craven Dial., Hoppit, an infant. |