stopple
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English stopple, stoppel, stoppell, partly from Old French estopail, estopaille, and partly equivalent to stop + -le.
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Noun[edit]
stopple (plural stopples)
Verb[edit]
stopple (third-person singular simple present stopples, present participle stoppling, simple past and past participle stoppled)
- (transitive) To plug; to stop up.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
- Shut your mouth, dame, / Or with this paper shall I stopple it.
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