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
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.
The lenses are focused, i. e. brought to the right distance from the object viewed, by sliding the cork up and down on the rod.
From Through a Microscope Something of the Science Together with many Curious Observations Indoor and Out and Directions for a Home-made Microscope. by Sargent, Frederick Leroy
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
