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stopple

WordNet
  1. (v) stopple
    close or secure with or as if with a stopper "She stoppered the wine bottle","The mothers stoppered their babies' mouths with pacifiers"
  2. (n) stopple
    blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Stopple
    To close the mouth of anything with a stopple, or as with a stopple.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) stopple
    That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper: as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple.
  2. (n) stopple
    A plug sometimes inserted in certain finger-holes of a flute or flageolet to accommodate its scale to some unusual series.
  3. stopple
    To stop or close with a stopple.
  4. (n) stopple
    Stubble.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Stopple
    stop′l that which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel: a cork or plug
  2. (v.t) Stopple
    to close with a stopple
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. G. stöpfel, stöpsel,. See Stop (n.) & (v. t.)

Usage in scientific papers

The author would like to thank Eduardo Dueñez, Chris Hughes, Duc Khiem Huynh, Jon Keating, Nina Snaith and Sergei Treil for many enlightening conversations, Jeffrey Stopple for finding a typo in the proof of Lemma 3.2, and the University of Bristol for its hospitality (where much of this work was done).
A Symplectic Test of the L-Functions Ratios Conjecture

Usage in literature

I would I could stir the stopple in the cider-barrel. "Giles Corey, Yeoman" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

I've half a mind To snap you like the stopple, you yackey-yaa! "Krindlesyke" by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Reverse a swallow, and give a stopple. "St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9" by Various

He pounces upon the decanter, pulls out the stopple, and applies his nose to the mouth. "Evening Dress" by W. D. Howells

The heat will cause the oil to run down between the stopple and mouth of the bottle. "The American Housewife" by Anonymous

If any man were to touch that stopple, I would strike him dead. "ZigZag Journeys in Northern Lands;" by Hezekiah Butterworth

The heat will cause the oil to run down between the stopple and mouth. "The New England Cook Book, or Young Housekeeper's Guide" by Anonymous