stopple

Example Sentences

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The oil will soon insinuate itself downwards, and the stopple may then be loosened by the hand, or by striking it lightly with a piece of soft wood.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849

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

From Old Ballads by Various

Stopper -- N. stopper, stopple; plug, cork, bung, spike, spill, stopcock, tap; rammer†; ram, ramrod; piston; stop-gap; wadding, stuffing, padding, stopping, dossil†, pledget†, tompion†, tourniquet. cover &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

Then the witch-wife took up the flasket and pulled out the stopple and betook it to Birdalone, and said: Drink of this now, a little sip, no more. 

From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by Morris, William

Stopple, stop′l, n. that which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel: a cork or plug.—v.t. to close with a stopple.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various