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popple

/pop-uhl/US // ˈpɒp əl //UK // (ˈpɒpəl) //

罂粟花,罂粟,罂粟花瓣,杨树

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    pop·pled, pop·pling.

    • : to move in a tumbling, irregular manner, as boiling water.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a poppling motion.

Examples

  • Oh, I don't know unless it's because he makes such nice popple whistles!

  • To these we fastened cross pieces of "popple" and on this put a tick filled with wild hay and corn stalk leaves.

  • The roof was made by laying popple poles so they met in the middle and fastening them together.

  • So well placed and idle a gentleman was almost bound to be a bad poet and worse dramatist, and this William Popple was both.

  • The remains of the forest, overgrown with scrub oak and popple thickets pushed down to the right of way.