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Stopple

noun
1.
Blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly.  Synonyms: plug, stopper.
verb
(past & past part. stoppled; pres. part. stoppling)
1.
Close or secure with or as if with a stopper.  Synonym: stopper.  "The mothers stoppered their babies' mouths with pacifiers"






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"Stopple" Quotes from Famous Books



... silver stopple from the bottle, and with a practised hand, tremulous as it was with age, so that one would have thought it must have shaken the liquor into a perfect shower of misapplied drops, he dropped—I have heard ...
— The Dolliver Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... a bottle and a flagon. Great difference; for the bottle is stopped and shut up with a stopple, but the flagon with a vice (La bouteille est fermee a bouchon, et le flaccon a vis.). Bravely and well played upon the words! Our fathers drank lustily, and emptied their cans. Well cacked, well sung! Come, let us drink: will you send nothing to the river? Here is one going to ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

... stopple, shive. Associated Words: cloop, phelloplastics, phelloplastic, subereous, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... the hole. He searched for his hay-cork, found it, stuck it in harder, and was just dropping off once more, when, pop! with an angry whistle behind it, the cork struck him again, this time on the cheek. Up he rose once more, made a fresh stopple of hay, and corked the hole severely. But he was hardly down again before—pop! it came on his forehead. He gave it up, drew the clothes above his head, and was ...
— At the Back of the North Wind • George MacDonald

... when I can make it run by turning a stopple—not much I don't!" cried Mrs. Hemphill vigorously, meanwhile tilting back and forth on heels and toes with a jolting motion which was gradually producing drowsiness in the infant she held. "And my man says it can't freeze in them pipes 'cause the nateral gas is goin' to run day and night ...
— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry


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