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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1635
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Popill, n.2 [ME pople (a 1350), e.m.E. popple (1530), a bubble such as rises in boiling water. Cf. Popill v..] ? A bubble in manufactured metal; a flaw caused by this. — 1635 Stirling's Royal Lett. II 819.
In regard of his artifice of making thairof [lead sheeting] more solide, less porie, and consequentlie more voyd of all craks, holls, or popill
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