popple

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The common aspen or "popple," Populus tremuloides, of our woods, is a meritorious little tree for certain effects.

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  1. intransitive verb To move in a tossing, bubbling, or rippling manner, as choppy water.
  2. noun Choppy water.
  3. noun The motion or sound of boiling liquid.
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  • I jus' trimbled like a popple leaf all the evenin'. —  A Woman's Life-Work
  • An' he crawl back an' I tuck 'im up agin, an' we trimble like a popple leaf. —  A Woman's Life-Work
  • When we were some way past them, near the end of the Point, almost in the open sea, a tiny popple began under our hull and and a cat's paw of breeze - a kitten's paw, more like it - just ruffled the water's surface enough for sunlight to start twinkling off the edges of each ripple; I was once told that fishermen at Aldeburgh used to call that effect of light 'tinkling cymbals'. —  Culture | guardian.co.uk
  • To these we fastened cross pieces of "popple" and on this put a tick filled with wild hay and corn stalk leaves. —  Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History
  • When they's anything the matter with me, I take a lunkin' ol' swig of popple-bark and bourbon. —  Prairie Folks
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English poplen, probably of Middle Dutch origin.
  2. Middle English popel (perhaps from Old English popul-), from Latin pōpulus.

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  1. Dim. and freq. of pop.
  2. from popple, v.
  3. from Middle English popul-(tre) = Middle Low German poppele, poppeleone, popplione, Low German poppele, poppelo = Middle High German popel, papel, German poppel, pappel = Swedish Danish poppel = Old French *pople, peuple, pouple, pouble, pible = Spanish pobo, chopo = Portuguese choupo, chopo = Italian pioppo, pioppa, from Latin populus, a poplar; perhaps for *palpulus, from √ palp in palpitare, tremble.
 

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