corked up
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It does feel a bit more corked up in stock form compared to the others, too.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oldendorf corked up the mouth of the strait with his old battlewagons, sent destroyers up ahead.
From Time Magazine Archive
"But, my best, worthiest gentlemen!" said the student Anselmus, "do you not feel, then, that you are all and sundry corked up in glass bottles, and cannot for your hearts walk a hair's-breadth?"
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
One time her wheel was corked up so that she could not go inside.
From Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 08, February 22, 1914 by Various
Put a piece of glue, four inches square, into three quarts of water, boil it, and keep it in a bottle, corked up.
From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Beecher, Catharine Esther
