stopple
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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 Mary Eaton
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
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
God be with you, sir; it's six o'clock: I should have carried two turns by this, what ho! my stopple, come.
From Every Man in His Humour by Ben Jonson
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
