Hopeless

Chamber's Etymological of the English Language · 1895 · p. 245
hop'lcs, adj. without hope giving no ground expect gorw.l or succe desperate. adv Hopele ly.—n Hopele ne . Hopper, hop a n one who hops a wooden trough through which grain pa es into a null, so called fiom its hopping or shaking motion a ve el in which seed c>rn irried for sowing.
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