stopple
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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
There is not a crumb of sweet-cake in the house, and the stopple is so tight in the cider-barrel that I cannot stir it a peg.
From Giles Corey, Yeoman A Play by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
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 would I could stir the stopple in the cider-barrel.
From Giles Corey, Yeoman A Play by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
But had it been in a leather bottèl, And the stopple in, all had been well.
From Old Ballads by Various
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
