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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
stopper . - adjective Fitted with a stopper
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of a container) having a stopper in the opening
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Examples
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If I store them in stoppered urns hand-painted with Druid symbols
January « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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If I store them in stoppered urns hand-painted with Druid symbols
alice d’alessio | three poems « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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Lester stoppered it up tightly and heaved it back into the sea.
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Beside him sat a small bench holding a pitcher and basin and three stoppered bottles.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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For the past few years, the cork industry has fought back against screw caps by playing the global warming card -- buying cork-stoppered wines helps preserve the Mediterranean cork forests and their natural habitats.
Wine: Drunken steak and other abuses from 2010 Dave McIntyre 2011
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He had brought with him a coconut calabash, tightly stoppered, of whale-oil that must have been landed on Lahaina beach thirty years before.
SHIN-BONES 2010
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While champagne corks should stay stoppered, that's still something that hasn't happened for a long-ass time (January, if we're going to get technical).
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The bung holes of the casks are not stoppered, only covered with gauze to keep dust and flies out, so over the course of a year about 10% evaporates.
Meathead Goldwyn: Balsamic Vinegar: Magnificence and Deception Meathead Goldwyn 2010
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Off to a day of badgering and haggling in dark little storefronts full of stoppered glass bottles full of writhing mists.
Valentines, part the first mllelaurel 2009
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The bung holes of the casks are not stoppered, only covered with gauze to keep dust and flies out, so over the course of a year about 10% evaporates.
Meathead Goldwyn: Balsamic Vinegar: Magnificence and Deception Meathead Goldwyn 2010
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