stopple
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God be with you, sir; it's six o'clock: I should have carried two turns by this, what ho! my stopple, come.
From Every Man in His Humour by Ben Jonson
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
Cutting off the end of the stopple even with the bark and filling the lower opening nearly full of clay, he declared the work was done.
From Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. by W. H. (William Henry) Rhodes
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.
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Anne MacDonell
“I have turned the stopple; I could not help it,” he said.
From Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by Hezekiah Butterworth
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
