Popple

//ˈpɒpl̩// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    poplar dialectal

    "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."

  2. 2
    Choppy water; the motion or sound of agitated water (as from boiling or wind).

    "Commander Birch was a trifle uneasy when he found there was more than a popple on the sea; it was, in fact, distinctly choppy."

Verb
  1. 1
    Of water, to move in a choppy, bubbling, or tossing manner.
  2. 2
    To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, like a cork on rough water.

    "His Brains came poppling out like Water"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English popul, popil, from Old English popul, from Latin populus.

Etymology 2

From Middle English poplen, possibly from Middle Dutch, of imitative origin.

Etymology 3

From Middle English poplen, possibly from Middle Dutch, of imitative origin.

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