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Definition of Poppets
1. poppet [n] - See also: poppet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poppets
Literary usage of Poppets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1877)
"You may laugh, poppets, but Ben an' me did n't do much laughin' that ... poppets,
but she got poor an" werry discouraged afore she died. ..."
2. Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 by George Lincoln Burr (1914)
"... and they would retire to the Fire side with their poppets; but going to stick
Pins into those poppets, they could not (according to their visions) make ..."
3. Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 by George Lincoln Burr (1914)
"... would be forced still to recoil and retire as unaccountably unable to meddle
with her, and they would retire to the Fire side with then- poppets; ..."
4. An Outline of Ship Building, Theoretical and Practical by Theodore Delavan Wilson, Edward James Reed, Titus Evans Dodge (1873)
"The poppets are held together and braced longitudinally by means of pieces of
... These ribbands are scored over the poppets, and extend far enough to lap a ..."
5. Transactions (1905)
"Weight on Fore poppets.—As I said in my paper, I do not •dread a little extra
weight on the fore poppets, consequently, curve the ways and dn not try to ..."
6. Rudiments of Naval Architecture: Or, An Exposition of the Elementary by James Peake (1849)
"These •timbers are called poppets (A; of the Plate), and are usually formed of
square fir timber termed baulk; the heads of them are prevented from flying ..."
7. The Design and Construction of Ships by Sir John Harvard Biles (1908)
"The top ends of the poppets are fitted closely to the shell and to the forging,
... In very heavy ships the poppets towards the ends of the ship are ..."
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