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Stopple   Listen
noun
Stopple  n.  That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple.





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"Stopple" Quotes from Famous Books



... tinn, printed in some workes, about four inches long; they could not gett it off. They wore about their necks a great horn of an oxe in a string or bawdrie, which, when they came to an house for almes, they did wind: and they did putt the drink given them into this horn, whereto they did putt a stopple. Since the warres I doe not remember to have seen any one of them. (I have seen them in Worcestershire within these thirty years, 1756. ...
— The Natural History of Wiltshire • John Aubrey


Words linked to "Stopple" :   tompion, closure, earplug, stoppage, tampion, tampon, block, spigot, stop, fipple, stopper, drainplug


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