cork up
Example Sentences
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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
A good mixer and orator, he likes to "pull the cork up in their throats at least once."
From Time Magazine Archive
They cork up the snuff in their nostrils with a hollowed-out bit of wood, till the tears run down their cheeks.
From Pine Needles by Warner, Susan
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
I will take the cork out, light the phosphorus, and cork up the jar again.
From The Fairy-Land of Science by Buckley, Arabella B.
