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• v  close or secure with or as if with a stopper
  She stoppered the wine bottle
  The mothers stoppered their babies' mouths with pacifiers
• s  (of a container) having a stopper in the opening
  the tightly stoppered bottles

• Exquisitely balancing the principles of survival and buoyancy, Knight drank half the water in his canteen, poured out the rest, stoppered it and tied it to his belt.
• It was he who discovered that bottles could be stoppered with cork.
• Near Berlin last week newsmen stood behind protecting steel walls, stoppered their ears and watched a small cannon-like device vomit gases with a nerve-shattering roar.

• stopper
• stopple