Index of English words, starting with "ho"

(1) - Hoplite (n.) A heavy-armed infantry soldier.

(1) - Hopper (n.) A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; -- called also dumping scow.
(2) - Hopper (n.) The larva of a cheese fly.
(3) - Hopper (n.) See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.
(4) - Hopper (n.) A game. See Hopscotch.
(5) - Hopper (n.) See Grasshopper, 2.
(6) - Hopper (n.) A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car.
(7) - Hopper (n.) One who, or that which, hops.

(1) - Hopple (n.) A fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze; -- chiefly used in the plural.
(2) - Hopple (v. t.) Fig.: To entangle; to hamper.
(3) - Hopple (v. t.) To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse.

(1) - Hopscotch (n.) A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers.