tapuli

Borrowed from Late Old Swedish stapul (modern Swedish stapel), from Proto-Germanic *stapulaz (“pillar, post”). Doublet of taapeli (“pile of wood heaped into a lattice structure for storage”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑpuli/,
• Rhymes: -ɑpuli
• Syllabification^(key): ta‧pu‧li

tapuli

1. campanile (US), belltower (freestanding belltower of a church)

   Synonym: kellotapuli

2. a type of stack of boards or planks to allow drying: the boards are plied so that the air can circulate around them

   Synonym: lautatapuli

3. staple (bundle of short fibers in wool)

   Synonym: villatapuli

4. (historical, as modifier) having the right to do foreign trade

   tapulioikeus (“right to do foreign trade”)

   tapulikaupunki (“town with such right”)

5. (archaic) tower
6. (archaic) storage

• “tapuli”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• puilta, tipula, tulipa