Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hopping"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hop \Hop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Hopped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Hopping}.] [OE. hoppen to hop, leap, dance, AS. hoppian;
akin to Icel. & Sw. hoppa, Dan. hoppe, D. huppelen, G.
h["u]pfen.]
1. To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or
jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.
[Birds] hopping from spray to spray. --Dryden.
2. To walk lame; to limp; to halt. --Dryden.
3. To dance. --Smollett.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hopping \Hop"ping\, n. [See 3rd {Hop}.]
A gathering of hops.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hopping \Hop"ping\, n.
The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking,
or dancing.
{Hopping Dick} (Zo["o]l.), a thrush of Jamaica ({Merula
leucogenys}), resembling the English blackbird in its
familiar manners, agreeable song, and dark plumage.
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