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Definition: Hoppestere
Hoppestere
\Hop`pes*tere"\, a.
An unexplained epithet used by Chaucer in reference to ships.
By some it is defined as
“dancing (on the wave)”; by others
as
“opposing,” “warlike.” --T. R. Lounsbury.
[1913 Webster]