bung

as inplug
as intoss
as instopper
as inclosure
as inlaunch
as inpitch
as inplug
as insling
as incast
as inhurl

Synonyms for bung

noun stopper

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Word Origin & History

mid-15c., "large stopper for a cask," from Middle Dutch bonge "stopper;" or perhaps from French bonde "bung, bunghole" (15c.), which may be of Germanic origin (or the Germanic words may be borrowed from Romanic), or it may be from Gaulish *bunda (cf. Old Irish bonn, Gaelic bonn, Welsh bon "base, sole of the foot"). It is possible that either or both of these sources is ultimately from Latin puncta in the sense of "hole." Transferred to the cask-mouth itself (also bung-hole) from 1570s.

Example Sentences for bung

Close the bung, and in about six weeks it will be fit for bottle.

It'll be bung full of women but it won't have a word of slop from beginning to end!

Let it remain in this state till the next day, in order to ascertain whether the cask be quite tight, and then bung it up.

In two or three days put a bottle of brandy to every four gallons, bung it close, but leave the vent peg out a few days.

To every gallon put four pounds of good Lisbon sugar, tun it immediately, lay the bung lightly on, and leave it to ferment itself.

I've lifted a barrel o' whisky and put my mouth to the bung hole.

"Oh, I don't think you'd better; it'll bung you all up," cautioned Reynolds.

You have only just got to fancy that it is a bung, and swipe at it with all your might.

To find the bung, of course; draw it out, and relieve my thirst by a draught of water.

Even had I succeeded in reaching the bung or vent, how could I have got out the stopper or vent-peg?

bung

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casting

closure

hurl

hurling

launch

bung

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