stopple
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The heat will cause the oil to run down between the stopple and mouth of the bottle.
From The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner by Anonymous
But had it been in a leather bottèl, And the stopple in, all had been well.
From Old Ballads by Various
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
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
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 Peter Mark Roget
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
