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Cask's stopper
Answer for the clue "Cask's stopper ", 4 letters:
bung
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask [syn: spile ] v. give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the agreed-on compensation; "Remember to tip the waiter"; "fee the steward" [syn: tip , fee ] close with a cork or stopper
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All six bungs were sealed and there was no evidence that any of them had ever been damaged. ▪ He finally slumped against the nearest crate and stared at the dimpled area around the bung . ▪ He gripped the bracket in both hands ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bung \Bung\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bunged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bunging .] To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up. To bung up , to use up, as by bruising or over exertion; to exhaust or incapacitate for action. [Low] ...
Usage examples of bung.
Conrad began with the stupid way that Jeans always stuck his lower jaw out to look like he was thinking, and then moved right into some confused vaporing about how misunderstood he, Conrad Bunger, really was.
Platek, for his part, had expected Conrad von Riemann Bunger to be a Nazi.
The aliens picked the Bunger family because they had no friends or relatives.
Plenty of people in Louisville would recognize Conrad Bunger from the pictures.
Cornelius Skelton, who states that Conrad Bunger spoke to him in person, giving assurances that .
Cornelius Skelton, who says he saw Conrad Bunger shortly after the Zachary Taylor cemetery incident.
Wu cut along the seam of the rubber ball with his penknife, then pocketed one half of the ball and gave the other half to Softly, who began to warm up, being the bunger, or thrower.
Black Jack, so we went out into the street and started hunting old Bunger, and, after about a hour of snooping into low-class dives, we got wind of him.
I saw old Bunger scooting for the exit, and I heered Mike roaring, lunging against his rope.
He had rolled the powder-keg to a safer distance from the Haubitz, and was prying the bung out with a dagger.
And from it he began to produce bottles--little fat bottles containing powders, small and slender bottles containing coloured and white fluids, fluted blue bottles labeled Poison, bottles with round bodies and slender necks, large green-glass bottles, large white-glass bottles, bottles with glass stoppers and frosted labels, bottles with fine corks, bottles with bungs, bottles with wooden caps, wine bottles, salad-oil bottles--putting them in rows on the chiffonnier, on the mantel, on the table under the window, round the floor, on the bookshelf--everywhere.
I could to for you, sir, is upload the tapes from the VCR onto digital format in my camcorder, bung it across a flywire into the new iBook they gave us, chop up the relevant bits and crunch it down via the movie-making software, export it to a Jpeg file and email it straight to you.
What do you call it when two people of opposite sexes are bunged together in close association in a secluded spot, meeting each other every day and seeing a lot of each other?
It was what the magistrate had said to me on the occasion when I stood in the dock as Eustace Plimsoll, of The Laburnums: and as it had impressed me a good deal at the time, I just bunged it in now by way of giving the conversation a tone.
The next moment she was legging it for the dining-room, while I, having bunged the bicycle into a bush, made for the stairs.