Definition of "poppet" []

• A poppet valve. (noun)
• Nautical A small wooden strip on a gunwale that forms or supports an oarlock. (noun)
• Nautical One of the beams of a launching cradle supporting a ship's hull. (noun)
• Chiefly British A darling. (noun)

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• "Six days ago, when I brought her my first earnings in full—twenty-three roubles forty copecks altogether—she called me her poppet: ‘poppet, ’ said she, ‘my little poppet."
• "Except they were red shoes, so maybe it's more like Dorothy, or that poppet from the Andersen story."
• "The poppet was a little doll manufactured from a corn-cob, dressed in an indigo-colored gown."