Synonyms:
hop, hops
Meaning: twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer
Usage examples
Always at his feet hops a little toad brother.
Boil a small handful of hops in a couple of quarts of water.
What is wanted is a trap capable of securing the game that hops or flies.
Then he began to talk about a duty on hops, about Californian hops, about Los Angeles, where he had been.
Instead of being able to sell our hops at the top price of the market, we saw our product fall to the foot of the list.
We actually pressed the English growers so closely that more than fifteen thousand acres of hops were destroyed in that country.
Others of my neighbors planted them, and so did many people in Oregon, until soon there came to be a field for purchasing and shipping hops.
Finally, during the failure of the world's hop crop in the year 1882, there came to be unheard-of prices for hops, and fully one third of the crop of the Puyallup valley was sold for a dollar a pound.
On her wedding day, the bride is crowned with a garland of wormwood; and, after the priest has tied the nuptial knot, his clerk or sexton throws a handful of hops upon the head of the bride, wishing that she might prove as fruitful as that plant.
We found to our cost, however, in the course of time, that the English methods did not suit our different conditions; for while we could kill the lice, we had to use so much spraying material on the dense foliage that, in killing them, we virtually destroyed the hops.