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nipple

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈnɪp.əl/Part of speech nounSorted eilnppStarts with NEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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.

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