The Collaborative International Dictionary
Popple \Pop"ple\, v. i. [Cf. Pop.]
To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, as a cork on
rough water; also, to bubble.
--Cotton.
Popple \Pop"ple\, n.
The poplar. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U. S.]
Tares. [Obs.] ``To sow popple among wheat.''
--Bale.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context dialect English) poplar Etymology 2
n. choppy water; the motion or sound of agitated water (as from boiling or wind). vb. 1 Of water, to move in a choppy, bubble, or tossing manner. 2 To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, like a cork on rough water.
Wikipedia
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Usage examples of "popple".
The posts to which these limber poles were nailed at either end sloped in opposite directions, so that while he started across on the upper side he found that when he got to the middle the pole fence began to slant so much up the stream that he must needs climb to the other side, a most difficult and dangerous performance on a fence of wabbling popple poles in the middle of a stream on a very dark night.
Behind us Ivor Popple waved a pennant, blew a whistle and the Japanese visitors obediently formed up again.
It was while I was lying back in the shady deck-chair one afternoon that Ivor Popple appeared around the side of the house and came across the grass on tiptoe like a daylight ghost.
The first part of the route was the same as I had taken on the bus with the Reverend Ivor Popple, another who had told me lies, although he did not know he was lying until I discovered the truth for him.
Another Liner vanished as he built a small fire among the popple and rock furrows.
She pushed out her lower jaw and stared up through the canopy of birch, aspen, and popple, the deeper green of pine and spruce.
No less than that I bare this poppling plot To the French ruler and our fiercest foe!
He checked the seals, poppled the safeties, and braced himself for the smell as he undid the final latches.