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popple
1[ pop-uhl ]
verb (used without object)
, pop·pled, pop·pling.
- to move in a tumbling, irregular manner, as boiling water.
noun
- a poppling motion.
popple
2[ pop-uhl ]
noun
, Northern U.S.
- a poplar of the genus Populus.
popple
/ ˈpɒpəl /
verb
- (of boiling water or a choppy sea) to heave or toss; bubble
- often foll by along (of a stream or river) to move with an irregular tumbling motion
the small rivulet poppled along over rocks and stones for half a mile
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Word History and Origins
Origin of popple2
First recorded before 1000; Middle English; Old English popul, from Latin pōpulus
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Word History and Origins
Origin of popple1
C14: of imitative origin; compare Middle Dutch popelen to bubble, throb
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Example Sentences
Oh, I don't know unless it's because he makes such nice popple whistles!
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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.
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The roof was made by laying popple poles so they met in the middle and fastening them together.
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So well placed and idle a gentleman was almost bound to be a bad poet and worse dramatist, and this William Popple was both.
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The remains of the forest, overgrown with scrub oak and popple thickets pushed down to the right of way.
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