stopple

Example Sentences

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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

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 Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

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 Jonson, Ben

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

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

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