Obs. Also 6 stoppe. [a. OF. estoup(p)e, estoppe:—L. stuppa tow, oakum. Cf. STUPE.] a. Tow for burning. b. Oakum.
1552–3. in Feuillerat, Revels Edw. VI. (1914), 108. A dragons mowthe of plate with stoppes to burne like fier.
1569. R. Androse, trans. Alexis’ Secr., IV. I. 36. Take of the stope, or caulking which they take out of olde shippes.
