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Definition of Stopples
1. stopple [v] - See also: stopple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stopples
Literary usage of Stopples
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1855)
"HOW TO EXTRACT GUSS stopples. When the glass will not come out, pass a strip of
woolen cloth around it, and " eee-saw" backwards and forwards, ..."
2. American Journal of Dental Science by American Society of Dental Surgeons (1845)
""Figure of the instruments which are named, stopples of the palate of the mouth."
The above is an exact representation of the drawings contained in the ..."
3. The Family Receipt Book: Containing Eight Hundred Valuable Receipts in by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1819)
"To loosen the Glass stopples of Smelling Bottles and Decanters, With a feather
rub a drop or two of olive oil round the stopple, close to the mouth of the ..."
4. Cucumber Chronicles: A Book to be Taken in Slices by Joseph Ashby-Sterry (1887)
"Ah, I think, stopples is " boots "; I shall have some rare fun out of ... to know
where stopples is, and great anxiety of every one to know whether ..."
5. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1916)
"Frank Derry testified that he did not have any conversation with Wheelwright
about cork stopples, and that he did not buy any from Blodgett (the clerk) at ..."
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