stopple

American

[stop-uhl] / ˈstɒp əl /

noun

a stopper, especially for a bottle.

verb (used with object)

stoppled, stoppling

to close or fit with a stopple.

Etymology

Origin of stopple

First recorded in 1350–1400, stopple is from the Middle English word stoppel. See stop, -le

Example Sentences

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stopple stoppled

But had it been in a leather bottèl, And the stopple in, all had been well.

From Old Ballads by Various

Buy a Mat, a Mil—Mat, Mat or a Hassock for your pew, A stopple for your close-stool, Or a Pesock to thrust your feet in.

From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley

I would I could stir the stopple in the cider-barrel.

From Giles Corey, Yeoman A Play by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

The heat will cause the oil to run down between the stopple and mouth of the bottle.

From The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner by Anonymous

Lastly, I set the wood and the roots of the mangrove thoroughly wetted, to act on a given volume of atmospheric air in a phial with a ground-glass stopple.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Thomasina Ross

Not one company responded, so she stoppled looking.

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2021

I produced from my pocket a little vial, containing matches, stoppled water-tight, and told him, that, though we were upset, we should still have some dry matches; at which he stared without saying a word.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 by Various

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