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plural popples
(dialect) poplar quotations examples
Some of them had recently built a pulp mill, and he called my attention to the young growths of "popple" we could see from the car window and remarked: "There's good pulp material in those trees, but it's not easy to get 'em cut. You'll strike lots of Catholic lumber-jacks who won't have anything to do with cutting a popple tree, and they won't cross a bridge or sleep in a house that has popple wood in it. There's a tradition that the cross on which Christ was crucified was of popple, and they say the wood was cursed on that account.
1911, Highways and byways of the Great Lakes, The Macmillan company, page 264
Choppy water; the motion or sound of agitated water (as from boiling or wind). quotations examples
Commander Birch was a trifle uneasy when he found there was more than a popple on the sea; it was, in fact, distinctly choppy.
1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 17, in Well Tackled!
third-person singular simple present popples, present participle poppling, simple past and past participle poppled
Of water, to move in a choppy, bubbling, or tossing manner. examples
To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, like a cork on rough water. quotations examples
His Brains came poppling out like Water
1675, Charles Cotton, Burlesque upon Burlesque