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View synonyms for stopple
stopple
[ stop-uhl ]
noun
- a stopper, especially for a bottle.
verb (used with object)
, stop·pled, stop·pling.
- to close or fit with a stopple.
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Stopple, stop′l, n. that which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel: a cork or plug.
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A wasteful cock is a cock or pipe with a turning stopple running to waste.
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You may at first stop it so, that the strong working may throw out the stopple, and yet keep it close, till it work strongly.
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On examining it in full light he found the upper end, looking like a carved handle, to be a closing stopple removable by a turn.
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He pounces upon the decanter, pulls out the stopple, and applies his nose to the mouth.
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