VERB
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close or secure with or as if with a stopper
She stoppered the wine bottle
The mothers stoppered their babies' mouths with pacifiers
NOUN
- blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly
How To Use stopple In A Sentence
- So I took the said flask and went my ways hastily to my own chamber, and there I looked at the said flask and took out the stopple; and there was a liquor therein, white like to water, but of a spicy smell, sweet, fresh, and enheartening. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
- The chain is attached to a plug, called a stopple or a tank ball. Flushed
- I picked up a bottle half buried in the wet sand, covered with barnacles, but stoppled tight, and half full of red ale, which still smacked of juniper, -- all that remained I fancied from the wreck of a rowdy world, -- that great salt sea on the one hand, and this little sea of ale on the other, preserving their separate characters. Cape Cod
- The advantage of a bottle stopple is that it will require less copper during the cleaning process.
- 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. The Maine Woods
- You simply fill the inside with copper and polish, place it inside the canister and fill the canister with copper and polish and secure it with the stopples as shown.
- 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. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
- As late as 1825, these stopples were still the closure of choice.
- The stopple stays up until nearly all of the water has left the holding tank. Flushed
- A few important details were left out—like what should the stopple be made of—but the system did work. Flushed