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- noun Plural form of
stopple .
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Examples
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Ceramic pots covered with thin goatskin, glass and horn containers plugged with stopples, and even a few imported stoneware jugs with parchment tied over their mouths to keep the contents dry filled the stillroom shelves.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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Your pharmacy probably has ear stopples made of wax, beeswax, or paraffin that are described as helpful for reducing environmental noise.
American Yoga Association Beginner’s Manual Fully Revised and Updated Alice Christensen 2010
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Your pharmacy probably has ear stopples made of wax, beeswax, or paraffin that are described as helpful for reducing environmental noise.
American Yoga Association Beginner’s Manual Fully Revised and Updated Alice Christensen 2010
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Ceramic pots covered with thin goatskin, glass and horn containers plugged with stopples, and even a few imported stoneware jugs with parchment tied over their mouths to keep the contents dry filled the stillroom shelves.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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Ceramic pots covered with thin goatskin, glass and horn containers plugged with stopples, and even a few imported stoneware jugs with parchment tied over their mouths to keep the contents dry filled the stillroom shelves.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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Ceramic pots covered with thin goatskin, glass and horn containers plugged with stopples, and even a few imported stoneware jugs with parchment tied over their mouths to keep the contents dry filled the stillroom shelves.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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But remember, it will not keep quite till noonday even in the coolest cellar, but drive out the stopples long ere that and follow westward the steps of Aurora.
Walden 2004
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In Mecca, in order to filter it, they strain it through stopples of dried herbs, put into the opening of
All About Coffee 1909
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He took two wicker bottles to a neighboring spring, filled them, and laid them on the ground beside the spring, while he went to gather some plants to stick into the mouths of the bottles as stopples.
The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468 Washington Matthews 1874
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Navajo put the stopples into the vessels and carried them back.
The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468 Washington Matthews 1874
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