sop
noun
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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A little later Joe had sopped up the water, and quiet was restored.
From Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles by Lester Chadwick