bung up
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City experts advised clients to sell shares following BP's admission over the weekend that the much vaunted "top kill" attempt to bung up the well had failed.
From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2010
“The thing will be to bung up the hole first,” said Dicky.
From Tom, Dick and Harry by Reed, Talbot Baines
Leave it open until fermentation ceases, then bung up.
From The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Gillette, F. L. (Fanny Lemira)
Gurney read: "Aberdeen, Wash., June 3, 1916 "Alden P. Ricks "Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York "Joey arrived bung up and bilge free.
From Cappy Ricks Retires by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)
Then break it up gradually with some of the wine, 'till you have made the two quarts two gallons, stir it well together, and apply to the pipe, and bung up close.
From The Cyder-Maker's Instructor, Sweet-Maker's Assistant, and Victualler's and Housekeeper's Director In Three Parts by Chapman, Thomas
