cork up
Example Sentences
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A good mixer and orator, he likes to "pull the cork up in their throats at least once."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
If you cannot find enough ripe to fill a bottle, cork up what you have got until you have some more fit: they may be added from day to day.
From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)
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.
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
