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Definitions
a flexible cap on a baby's feeding bottle or pacifier
Word origin
From earlier neple, nypil, neble, believed to be a diminutive of nib, neb (“tip, point”), equivalent to nib + -le. Compare Old English nypel (“elephant trunk”), formed analogously as "a protuberance from one's neb" .
Used in a sentence
“I could tell he didn't agree but he went to the corner and took up his squirrel gun, feeling the nipple for a percussion cap.”
“Turn the nipples on to the bicycle spokes only one turn, for each spoke on the new wheel all the way around until they are all snug, then check alignment.”
“These were first constructed by heading the spokes, threading them through a steel felloe or rim and inserting them into screwed nipples which were in their turn screwed into the flanges of the hub.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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