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Hopple vs Popple - What's the difference?

hopple | popple |

As nouns the difference between hopple and popple

is that hopple is a fetter for horses or cattle when turned out to graze while popple is poplar.

As verbs the difference between hopple and popple

is that hopple is to impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hobble while popple is of water, to move in a choppy, bubbling, or tossing manner.

hopple

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chiefly, in the plural) A fetter for horses or cattle when turned out to graze.
  • Verb

    (hoppl)
  • To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hobble.
  • (figurative) To entangle; to hamper.
  • popple

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pople

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) popul, popil, from (etyl) popul, from (etyl) populus

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialect) poplar
  • * 1911 , Highways and byways of the Great Lakes , The Macmillan company, page 264
  • Some of them had recently built a pulp mill, and he called my attention to the young growths of "popple'" we could see from the car window and remarked: "There's good pulp material in those trees, but it's not easy to get 'em cut. You'll strike lots of Catholic lumber-jacks who won't have anything to do with cutting a '''popple''' tree, and they won't cross a bridge or sleep in a house that has '''popple''' wood in it. There's a tradition that the cross on which Christ was crucified was of ' popple , and they say the wood was cursed on that account.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) poplen, possibly from (etyl), of imitative origin English onomatopoeias

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Choppy water; the motion or sound of agitated water (as from boiling or wind).
  • *{{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
  • , title=Well Tackled! , chapter=17 citation , passage=Commander Birch was a trifle uneasy when he found there was more than a popple on the sea; it was, in fact, distinctly choppy.}}

    Verb

    (poppl)
  • Of water, to move in a choppy, bubbling, or tossing manner.
  • To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, like a cork on rough water.
  • (Cotton)

    References

    * popple in Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged © 2002 * popple in the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition