Sc. and north. Also 7 stople, 9 stapple. The stem of a tobacco-pipe. (See PIPE-STAPPLE.)
1681. Colvil, Whigs Supplic. (1751), 55. Some have their faces and their throples All scratched with tobacco stoples.
a. 1730. T. Boston, in Morrison, Mem. (1899), 6. He … broke in pieces a part of a tobacco pipe…; bidding the devil beat him as small as that pipe-stopple, if [etc.].
1898. Shetland News, 5 Feb. (E.D.D.), He … ramm’d da strae twartree times introw da stapple o’ his pipe.
