popple

popple
1. noun /ˈpɒpl̩/

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: "Theres good pulp material in those trees, but its not easy to get em cut. Youll strike lots of Catholic lumber-jacks who wont have anything to do with cutting a popple tree, and they wont cross a bridge or sleep in a house that has popple wood in it. Theres a tradition that the cross on which Christ was crucified was of popple, and they say the wood was cursed on that account.

b) Choppy water; the motion or sound of agitated water (as from boiling or wind)
2. verb /ˈpɒpl̩/
Of water, to move in a choppy, bubbling, or tossing manner.

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