hopperdozern.

/ˈhɒpədəʊzə/

Etymology: < hopper n.¹, perhaps after bulldozer (1876); see also quot. 1878.

U.S.

A contrivance for catching and destroying insects, consisting essentially of an elongated pen or frame which is filled or smeared with some poisonous or glutinous substance and slowly drawn or pushed over the ground.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > pest control > [noun] > devices or substances for destroying pests

hopperdozer1877

hexachlorethane1898

bug chaser1917

zapper1969

1877 Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minneapolis) 19 May 5/4 (heading) A hopperdozer.

1877 Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minneapolis) 22 May 1/5 The grasshoppers in this vicinity have hatched out very thickly... People are beginning to destroy them in various ways, principally with sheet iron hopperdozers covered with coal tar.

1878 Ann. Rep. U.S. Entom. Commission 1877 xiii. 390 The simple pan..known as the Robbins' hopperdozer. [Note] A word that came into very general use last year among farmers..and which doubtless takes its origin from doze, in reference to the toxic effect of the coal-tar on the locusts.

1904 W. C. Edgar Story Grain Wheat ii. 21 Large areas of wheat are saved by means of a machine termed in America the ‘hopperdozer’.

1932 Chieftain (Tecumseh, Nebraska) 5 May Mechanical ‘hopperdozers’ have some value in the control of grasshoppers of fairly level fields of alfalfa.

1962 Metcalf & Flint Destructive & Useful Insects (ed. 4) ix. 471 On the whole, hopperdozers are much more expensive to operate and less efficient than poisoning.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	hopperdozer
释义	hopperdozern. /ˈhɒpədəʊzə/ Etymology: < hopper n.¹, perhaps after bulldozer (1876); see also quot. 1878. U.S. A contrivance for catching and destroying insects, consisting essentially of an elongated pen or frame which is filled or smeared with some poisonous or glutinous substance and slowly drawn or pushed over the ground. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > pest control > [noun] > devices or substances for destroying pests hopperdozer1877 hexachlorethane1898 bug chaser1917 zapper1969 1877 Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minneapolis) 19 May 5/4 (heading) A hopperdozer. 1877 Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minneapolis) 22 May 1/5 The grasshoppers in this vicinity have hatched out very thickly... People are beginning to destroy them in various ways, principally with sheet iron hopperdozers covered with coal tar. 1878 Ann. Rep. U.S. Entom. Commission 1877 xiii. 390 The simple pan..known as the Robbins' hopperdozer. [Note] A word that came into very general use last year among farmers..and which doubtless takes its origin from doze, in reference to the toxic effect of the coal-tar on the locusts. 1904 W. C. Edgar Story Grain Wheat ii. 21 Large areas of wheat are saved by means of a machine termed in America the ‘hopperdozer’. 1932 Chieftain (Tecumseh, Nebraska) 5 May Mechanical ‘hopperdozers’ have some value in the control of grasshoppers of fairly level fields of alfalfa. 1962 Metcalf & Flint Destructive & Useful Insects (ed. 4) ix. 471 On the whole, hopperdozers are much more expensive to operate and less efficient than poisoning. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1877
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