stopple
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He pounces upon the decanter, pulls out the stopple, and applies his nose to the mouth.
From Evening Dress Farce by William Dean Howells
At last, unable to wait longer, just as the apothecary was tottering away in quest of a drinking-glass, the Colonel took out the stopple, and lifted the flask itself to his lips.
From The Dolliver Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A fid or stopple made of leather or oakum fitting in the vent of a piece to stop it against weather, &c.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
But had it been in a leather bottèl, And the stopple in, all had been well.
From Old Ballads by Various
He found the metal whole; the turning of the stopple had not caused the metal to flow.
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
