stopple

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Buy a Mat, a Mil—Mat, Mat or a Hassock for your pew, A stopple for your close-stool, Or a Pesock to thrust your feet in.

From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles

Unstopple, un-stop′l, v.t. to remove a stopple from.

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

Perchance Paul could loose the stopple in the cider-barrel.

From Giles Corey, Yeoman A Play by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

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

Then charge the jar, as highly as it may be, by throwing into it vitreous electric ether; and in this state hermetically seal it, if practicable, otherwise close it with a glass stopple and wax.

From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Darwin, Erasmus