hoppet

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhɒpɪt/

Noun

hoppet (plural hoppets)

(UK, dialect) A handbasket for holding seeds while sowing.
- 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:
  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.
(UK, dialect) A dish used by miners to measure ore.
- 1904, Great Britain. Home Office, Mines and Quarries, page 81:
  The sinkers were raised and lowered in a hoppet attached to the rope.
- 1904, Arnold Lupton, Mining: An Elementary Treatise on the Getting of Minerals, page 113:
  A sinker must be appointed as hanger-on to give signals to the bank; he must also steady the hoppet whenever it has been lifted off the bottom, and must see that it has ceased to swing before he gives the signal to wind up.
- 1906, James Tonge, The Principles and Practice of Coal Mining, page 69:
  The hoppet is thus steadied and guided, and may be raised with safety at a greater speed than was formerly possible.
(UK, dialect) A meadow or paddock.
- 1926, Edward Arthur Fitch, William Herbert Dalton, Charlotte Fell-Smith, The Essex Review, page 139:
  The bowling green can be seen in the hoppet, but the windmill has been removed.
- 1982, Frederick George Emmison, Essex Wills (England): 1558-1565, page 149:
  To Charles my tenements and lands in Rettendon , i.e. my tenement called Hadds with a little hoppet of a rood of land lying to the same , my tenement with 15 acres of customary land and 15 acres of silver land
- 1987, Essex Society for Archaeological and History, Essex Archaeology and History, page 157:
  Grant, captain ... affirmeth that he holdeth no such land, nor is there any land appertaining to the said chapel other than the ground whereupon the blockhouse is builded ... and a little hoppet in the occupation of the ferryman Grey, worth by the year 2s. 4d.
- 1989, Thomas Hassall, Stephen G. Doree, The Parish Register and Tithing Book of Thomas Hassall of Amwell, page 217:
  This I took out of the rools the 24 of Aprill 1610 , Mr Thomas Hobbes Esquyer being then lord of the mannor ; nor can I tell whether the rent of 8d lys only on that hoppet or that it be also for the 2 cow leases ( which perhaps are coppyhold, because mentioned in the rolls). The hoppet, though it were never great nor profitable, is, since the New River (which cutt cross over it) less of value.