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Answer for the clue "Bottle sealer ", 7 letters:
stopper

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Word definitions for stopper in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stopper \Stop"per\, n. One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel. (Naut.) A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, -- used ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly [syn: plug , stopple ] an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down [syn: show-stopper , showstopper ] a remark to which there is no polite ...

Usage examples of stopper.

Thus she described for my benefit a ballet class that Haseloff had given his little holes and stoppers.

The stopper popped open with a soft plop and Brett sniffed the brandy appreciatively before he poured a hefty draught into a silver cup.

The junkie remembered how to poke the needle through the foil cap on the morphine just so, then to invert the vial and pull back the stopper on the syringe.

He fumbled, trying to tear open a syringe packet, while Stephanie removed the cap covering the rubber stopper on the parenteral medication vial.

It was little taller than her forefinger, made of thick opaque blue glass decorated with a white, twisted design and the stopper was sealed in place with some kind of resiny wax.

The crystal clinks softly, musically, as Scire replaces the stopper in the decanter.

Even as he rehearsed this speech he recognized its futility, but the plug of nothingness that had stoppered his emotions during the auction had worked itself loose, the speedball of failure and rejection had worn off, and all the usual passions and compulsions were sparking in him again.

But in the end, all that had been uncovered were dust, stench, decay and some brown grinning bones - clutched in the digits of which was a vase of blue crystal stoppered with rose-opal.

He shook his big stoppered gourd to check if it was still full from the most recent creek.

Monica took her elbow and guided her to a workstation where a rack of stoppered test tubes stood, their contents glowing redly.

She stoppered the tubes, shook them lightly, and set them into three of the six empty spaces in the peruvia b holder.

She bent back to her bag and finally pulled out a handful of little stoppered pottery bottles.

A little stoppered bottle tumbled from its snug place between her breasts and swung on a fine silver chain.

They stuffed the nasty demons into jars and bottles, which were stoppered and sealed and stamped with closure decrees that forbade them to be opened throughout all eternity.

She tried to catch the names on Petri dishes, slants, and stoppered test tubes, on trays of Eppendorf tubes and jars.