corked up
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It does feel a bit more corked up in stock form compared to the others, too.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oldendorf corked up the mouth of the strait with his old battlewagons, sent destroyers up ahead.
From Time Magazine Archive
Both men stared at him, for there was something very explosive about the words, as if they had been corked up painfully for a long time.
From The Napoleon of Notting Hill by Robertson, W. Graham (Walford Graham)
Other bottles filled with magnetized water tightly corked up were laid in divergent rows with their necks turned outwards.
From Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use by Alpheus, A.
These bolts were driven outside, and obturators wadded with indiarubber corked up the hole that let them through.
From The Moon-Voyage by Verne, Jules
