poppet

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I daresay he won't call me a pert poppet, and I shall not remind him of the word.

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  1. noun A poppet valve.
  2. noun Nautical A small wooden strip on a gunwale that forms or supports an oarlock.
  3. noun Nautical One of the beams of a launching cradle supporting a ship's hull.
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  • "Papa tell you You certainly can, poppet," he said, stooping down from the bank and lifting her from Jane's lap. —  Mary Balogh - An Unacceptable Offer
  • The goal for the poppet valve project at Purdue is to create optimized valve modeling and develop equation structures that focus on how fluidic, mechanical and electromagnetic mechanisms interact in high-speed on / off valves, along with verifying results experimentally with a highly coupled valve prototype. —  All DN headlines
  • Then you just smile knowingly when their nasty little poppet-despot Achmadinejad insults you and America by throwing your words back at you. —  Infidel Bloggers Alliance
  • The word is that he's cut his handy-pandy - poor little poppet, but we're a little confused. —  Sky Showbiz - Latest
  • He's a poppet. bwlass, thanks so much for the link to the TIFF pics, I hadn't seen them. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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  1. Middle English popet, small child, doll, puppet; see puppet.

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  1. A variant of puppet.
 

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