stopple

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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

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 Belcher, Edward, Sir

"No, I did not feel any great alarm, sister," said Pierre, smiling, "since I could not but perceive that the decanter was still full to the stopple."

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

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

If the stopple cannot be taken out with the hand at the end of this process, repeat it, and you will finally succeed by persevering in it, however firmly it may be wedged in.

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