stopple

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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

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 Roget, Peter Mark

Up he rose once more, made a fresh stopple of hay, and corked the hole severely.

From At the Back of the North Wind by MacDonald, George

I would I could stir the stopple in the cider-barrel.

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

“I have turned the stopple; I could not help it,” he said.

From Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by Butterworth, Hezekiah