in the hopper

There was always food in the hoppers, and other goods for the taking, when he dared.

There was more room in the buses than in the hoppers.

With a rattle like steel chain it fell across the train, sizzling and steaming off the pantographs, thudding in the coke carts, drumming in the hoppers.

Contrary to California, Maine legislators have been notably busy, dropping more bills in the hoppers in Augusta in the early months of the session than ever before.

He dropped the gang-plank, threw off the mooring-lines, pulled hoods from the worms and placed triple bait in the hoppers, then ran up to the quarter-deck and threw the wheel hard over.