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Stopple   Listen
verb
Stopple  v. t.  (past & past part. stoppled; pres. part. stoppling)  To close the mouth of anything with a stopple, or as with a stopple.






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"Stopple" Quotes from Famous Books



... stopple; plug, cork, bung, spike, spill, stopcock, tap; rammer^; ram, ramrod; piston; stop-gap; wadding, stuffing, padding, stopping, dossil^, pledget^, tompion^, tourniquet. cover &c 223; valve, vent peg, spigot, slide valve. janitor, doorkeeper, porter, warder, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... 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 it said—only one single drop into the goblet of water. ...
— The Dolliver Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne



Words linked to "Stopple" :   stoppage, blockage, fipple, occlusion, tompion, earplug, spigot, plug, spile, tampon, cork



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