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Definition of "popple" [pop•ple]

  • To move in a tossing, bubbling, or rippling manner, as choppy water. (verb-intransitive)
  • Choppy water. (noun)
  • The motion or sound of boiling liquid. (noun)
  • Informal A poplar. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "popple" in a sentence
  • "To these we fastened cross pieces of "popple" and on this put a tick filled with wild hay and corn stalk leaves."
  • "He had always admired the hard bark and metallic resonance of the ironwood, but he hated the poplar -- "popple" it is called in Joralemon, Minnesota."
  • "The common aspen or "popple," _Populus tremuloides, _ of our woods, is a meritorious little tree for certain effects."