Word Finder - hops

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A short jump.

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The frog crossed the brook in three or four hops.

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A jump on one leg.

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A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that take place on private plane.

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A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.

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A dance; a gathering for the purpose of dancing.

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The sending of a data packet from one host to another as part of its overall journey.

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To jump a short distance.

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• jump
• leap

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To jump on one foot.

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To be in state of energetic activity.

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Sorry, can't chat. Got to hop.

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To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.

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He hopped a train to California.

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To jump onto, or over

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(usually in combination) To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.

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We had to island hop on the weekly seaplane to get to his hideaway.

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To walk lame; to limp.

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To dance.

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The plant (Humulus lupulus) from whose flowers, beer or ale is brewed.

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(usually in the plural) The flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer etc.

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Opium, or some other narcotic drug.

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The fruit of the dog rose; a hip.

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To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer

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To gather hops.

The district produces hops and fruit, and there is trade in cider.

The soil occupied by hops was estimated in 1905 at 98,000 acres a larger area than in Great Britain, which had in the same year about 48,000 acres.

Its trade also in books, hops, horses, and cloth is considerable, and a large banking and exchange business is done here.

The "stinking fermentations" occasionally experienced in breweries probably arise from this, the free sulphur being derived from the hops.

There is a special cultivation of hops in the district north-west of 's Hertogenbosch.

Large markets and fairs are held for corn, hops, cattle and sheep; and the town contains some highly reputed ale breweries, besides paper mills and iron foundries.

Agriculture is highly developed; cereals, principally wheat and oats, and beetroot are the chief crops; potatoes, flax, hemp, rape and hops are also grown.

Printing, book-selling, the manufacture of surgical and scientific instruments, chemicals, gloves and vinegar, and the cultivation of hops, fruit and vines are among the leading occupations of the inhabitants.

In life, however, its appearance must be wholly unlike, for it rarely flies, hops actively on the ground or among bushes, with its tail erect or turned towards its head, and continually utters various and strange notes, - some, says Darwin, are "like the cooing of doves, others like the bubbling of water, and many defy all similes."

Among the other manufactures are food preparations, wooden ware, wagons and carriages, stoves and furnaces, boots and shoes, tobacco and cigars, flour, candy, gloves, bricks, tile and pottery, furniture, paper boxes and firearms. Utica is a shipping point for the products of a fertile agricultural region, from which are exported dairy products (especially cheese), nursery products, flowers (especially roses), small fruits and vegetables, honey and hops.

It is especially used for drying hops and malt, and in blast furnaces where a high temperature is required, but it is not suited for reverberatory furnaces.

The inhabitants are engaged in cattlerearing, the cultivation of corn, hops and fruit, shipbuilding and the shipping trade, and the manufacture of cloth, paper and cutlery.

The Rhine valley is in great part fertile, yielding good crops of potatoes, cereals (including maize), sugar beet, hops, tobacco, flax, hemp and products of oleaginous plants.

A considerable trade is carried on in hops, which are extensively cultivated in the neighbourhood, and in cattle, wool, leather and grain.

On the ragstone the soil is occasionally thin and much mixed with small portions of sand and stone; but in some situations the ragstone has a thick covering of clay loam, which is most suitable for the production of hops and fruits.

But the county is specially noted for the cultivation of fruit and hops.

In some cases apples, cherries, filberts and hops are grown in alternate rows.

Cherries are said to have been imported from Flanders and first planted in Kent by Henry VIII., and from this period the culture of fruits (especially apples and cherries) and of hops spread rapidly over the county.

Exceptionally fine hops are grown in the Zatec (Saaz) district of Bohemia, and of these no less than 40% are exported.

The chief agricultural products are potatoes and vegetables, beet-root and hops, wheat, rye, barley and oats.

Sugar, malt, hops, beer, mineral waters, glass, porcelain, leather, gloves, furniture and toys are the principal articles of export to Great Britain.

Potatoes, hemp, turnips, hops, tobacco and beet are also extensively grown, the latter, in connexion with the sugar industry, showing each year a larger return.

Tobacco, oil-seeds, chicory and hops may also be specified, while a little wine, of an inferior quality, is produced near Granberg.

Formerly also Sticta pulmonaria was much employed in brewing instead of hops, and it is said that a Siberian monastery was much celebrated for its beer which was flavoured with the bitter principle of this species.

Hops are extensively grown in central Franconia; tobacco (the best in Germany) round Nuremberg and in the Palatinate, which also largely produces the sugar-beet.

The exports consist chiefly of corn, potatoes, hops, beer, wine, cloth, cotton goods, glass, fancy wares, toys, cattle, pigs and vegetables.

Tobacco, hemp, hops, colza and chicory form special cultures.

An examination of its lists of exports and imports will show that Holland receives from its colonies its spiceries, coffee, sugar, tobacco, indigo, cinnamon; from England and Belgium its manufactured goods and coals; petroleum, raw cotton and cereals from the United States; grain from the Baltic provinces, Archangel, and the ports of the Black Sea; timber from Norway and the basin of the Rhine, yarn from England, wine from France, hops from Bavaria and Alsace; ironore from Spain; while in its turn it sends its colonial wares to Germany, its agricultural produce to the London market, its fish to Belgium and Germany, and its cheese to France, Belgium and Hamburg, as well as England.

The usual cereal crops are, however, all grown with success, and tobacco, hops, flax, rape, hemp and beetroot (for sugar) are cultivated for commercial purposes.

Altogether nearly 16 million acres of Russian Poland, or almost one-half of the total area, are under crops, principally rye, oats, wheat, barley, potatoes and hay, with some flax, hemp, peas, buckwheat and hops.

The principal fairs are held at Warsaw (wool, hemp, hops), Lcczyca in Kalisz, Skaryszew in Radom, Ciechanoviec in Lomza, and Lowicz in Warsaw.

Smaller areas are devoted to maize, buckwheat, pease, rape, hemp, flax, hops and tobacco.

The cultivation of hops is in a very thriving condition in the southern states of Germany.

The total production of hops was 29,000 tons in 1905, and of this over 25,000 were grown in Bavaria, Wurttemberg, Baden and Alsace-Lorraine.

Almost the whole yield in hops is consumed in the country by the great breweries.

The woods and fields in the neighbourhood abound with English song-birds, and the streams are stocked with trout; while the orchards in the town and suburbs are famous for English kinds of fruit, and hops are extensively cultivated.

Goods traffic was mainly fruit and hops outwards and coal inwards.

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Mauldon's traditional beers are brewed only from the finest East Anglian malted barley, traditional English hops, water and brewing yeast.

As examples of class (i.) may be mentioned - erection or enlargement of buildings, laying down of permanent pasture, making of gardens or fences, planting of hops, embankments and sluices; as examples of (ii.) - chalking of land, clay burning, application to land of purchased artificial or purchased manure, except they have been made for the purpose of making provision to protect the holding from injury or deterioration.

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Such variants include one-leg hops on the spot and one-leg squats with lateral hops.

Mauldon 's traditional beers are brewed only from the finest East Anglian malted barley, traditional English hops, water and brewing yeast.

Child-like and naïve, Meatwad rolls around and hops to get from one place to another, and since he's made of ground meat, he is also something of a shapeshifter.

Hops, an ingredient in beer, has a sedative effect when taken in moderate amounts.

Hops is effective at relieving insomnia and anxiety, but may cause depression in susceptible people when taken for long periods.

The steps themselves are often simple and rhythmic, involving turns, hops and stomps.

It is said that El Chupacabra hops like a kangaroo.

The album features some of hip hops best and brightest beat makers, like Ghostface Killah, The Roots, Cut Chemist, and of course, E40, whose track we have here.

Well known in his native South Bronx for unmistakable flow, he has had a hand in some of hip hops biggest hits, but yet never quite made a slash for himself.