Definition of Stoppering

1. Verb. (present participle of stopper) ¹

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Definition of Stoppering

1. stopper [v] - See also: stopper

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stoppering

stoppage
stoppage time
stoppages
stoppaniite
stopped
stopped-up
stopped-up(a)
stopped over
stopped pipe
stopped pipes
stopped up(p)
stopper
stopper knot
stopper knots
stoppered
stoppering (current term)
stoppers
stoppeth
stoppie
stoppies
stopping
stopping distance
stopping distances
stopping over
stopping point
stopping power
stoppings
stopple
stoppled
stopples

Literary usage of Stoppering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Curiosities of Glass Making: With Details of the Processes and Productions by Apsley Pellatt (1849)
"GLASS stoppering. stoppering is usually done within Flint Glass premises. The lathe is similar to that employed by Glass engravers, being what is termed a ..."

2. A Treatise on the Origin, Nature, and Varieties of Wine: Being a Complete by John Louis William Thudichum, August Dupré (1872)
"It is very difficult to decide whether the introduction of corks for the stoppering of bottles led immediately to the discovery of the making of ..."

3. The Chemist: A Monthly Journal of Chemical and Physical Science (1846)
"IMPROVEMENTS IN COVERING OR stoppering THE TOPS OF BOTTLES, &c.* ВУ BENJAMIN WEST. THIS invention consists in the application of the electrotype process for ..."

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