popple

poplar

Some of them had recently built a pulp mill, and he called my attention to the young growths of "popple" we could see from the car window and remarked: "There's good pulp material in those trees, but it's not easy to get 'em cut. You'll strike lots of Catholic lumber-jacks who won't have anything to do with cutting a popple tree, and they won't cross a bridge or sleep in a house that has popple wood in it. There's a tradition that the cross on which Christ was crucified was of popple, and they say the wood was cursed on that account.

Choppy water; the motion or sound of agitated water (as from boiling or wind).

Commander Birch was a trifle uneasy when he found there was more than a popple on the sea; it was, in fact, distinctly choppy.

Of water, to move in a choppy, bubbling, or tossing manner.

To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, like a cork on rough water.

His Brains came poppling out like Water