Poppet
//ˈpɒ.pɪt// noun, slang
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An endearingly sweet or beautiful child. informal
- 2 a mushroom-shaped valve that rises perpendicularly from its seat; commonly used in internal-combustion engines wordnet
- 3 A young woman or girl. informal
"Come 'ere, poppet!"
- 4 The stem and valve head in a poppet valve.
"After passing through the poppet valve, the impulse air and water flows through a poppet discharge stop valve and then through a discharge pipe to the poppet drain tank or bilge"
- 5 A doll (such as a voodoo doll) made in witchcraft to represent a person, used in casting spells on that person.
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- 6 One of certain upright timbers on the bilge ways, used to support a vessel in launching.
- 7 An upright support or guide fastened at the bottom only.
Example
More examples"Giles Headley the younger was a fine tall youth, but clumsy and untrained in the use of his limbs, and he rode a large, powerful brown horse, which brooked no companionship, lashing out with its shaggy hoofs at any of its kind that approached it, more especially at poor, plump, mottled Poppet."
Etymology
A variant of puppet.
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