bung up
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City experts advised clients to sell shares following BP's admission over the weekend that the much vaunted "top kill" attempt to bung up the well had failed.
From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2010
This done, the whole was launched overboard from the taffrail, the cask floating bung up, with half the pole and the light batten standing perpendicularly above it like a mast.
From The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific by Staniland, C.J.
Let it ferment a day or two; then bung up the cask, and you may bottle the beer the next day.
From Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches by Leslie, Eliza
He was bung up and bilge free—and that's why he's chief kicker now.
From Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)
After remaining a few weeks, rack off and bung up closely in clean casks.
From The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Gillette, F. L. (Fanny Lemira)
