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stopple en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈstɒpəl/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English stopple, stoppel, stoppell, from Old French estopail, estopaille. By surface analysis, stop + -le.

Meanings

  1. A plug; a stopper.
  2. A projection or lid in a pollen grain that falls away to allow the passage of the pollen tube.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
stopples Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

unstopple

stopple en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈstɒpəl/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English stopple, stoppel, stoppell, from Old French estopail, estopaille. By surface analysis, stop + -le.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To plug; to stop up.
    • Shut your mouth, dame, / Or with this paper shall I stopple it. 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]:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
stoppled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
stoppled Tense=Past lexicographic
stoppling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
stopples Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Synonyms

estop · stanch