Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To flow; rush; foam; bubble.
- To bob or move up and down: said of a floating object.
- noun The corn-cockle, Lychnis Githago.
- noun A ripple.
- noun Same as
poplar .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, as a cork on rough water; also, to bubble.
- noun Prov. Eng. & Local, U. S. The poplar.
- noun obsolete Tares.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dialect
poplar - noun
Choppy water; themotion orsound ofagitated water (as fromboiling orwind ) - verb Of water, to move in a
choppy ,bubbling , ortossing manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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To these we fastened cross pieces of "popple" and on this put a tick filled with wild hay and corn stalk leaves.
Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Various
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He had always admired the hard bark and metallic resonance of the ironwood, but he hated the poplar -- "popple" it is called in Joralemon, Minnesota.
The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918
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The common aspen or "popple," _Populus tremuloides, _ of our woods, is a meritorious little tree for certain effects.
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"popple" bark is his chief dainty -- he cannot understand and cannot tolerate this barbarian, who eats raw fish and leaves the bones and fins and the smell of slime in his doorway.
Secret of the Woods William Joseph Long 1909
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No cattle grazing the pastures, no farmers mowing the fields, and stands of brush and birch and popple seedlings are popping up everywhere.
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September 8, 2009 at 5:17 am omgs, it looks liek a popple
KITTEH YOGA - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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The nostalgic popple lovers are outnumbering the nerdy tribble lovers .
i’m in ur cabinet bein a popple - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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March 5, 2007 at 10:55 am dont kare if a buny, it a guud popple.
i’m in ur cabinet bein a popple - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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You are def born after 1990 if you dont know what a popple is……fur berries have nuthin on popple…
i’m in ur cabinet bein a popple - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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The banks were high and formidably steep from the cut of floodwaters that came with the snowmelt each spring, and they were crowned with a thick growth of brush and popple.
Mercy Falls William Kent Krueger 2005
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