cork up
Example Sentences
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A good mixer and orator, he likes to "pull the cork up in their throats at least once."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Kwangtung supply line, which the Japanese last week tried to cork up, is no single bombable pathway like the Burma Road.
From Time Magazine Archive
Firmly cork up the apparatus, and boil over a small Bunsen-burner flame for fifteen or twenty minutes, but avoid evaporating to dryness.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius
Cut the leaves two or three times in the season, and dry quickly, and put away in paper bags; or, better, pulverize and cork up in glass bottles.
From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.
While boiling, cork up the mouth of the flask as quickly as you can, and tie a bit of wet bladder over the cork, so as to exclude the air perfectly.
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, October 1878, No. 12 by Dodge, Mary Mapes
