corked up
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Oldendorf corked up the mouth of the strait with his old battlewagons, sent destroyers up ahead.
From Time Magazine Archive
It does feel a bit more corked up in stock form compared to the others, too.
From Time Magazine Archive
She says that no sooner had Doctor Newton received one lock of hair of one of them, than the measles left them all, and she now has said measles corked up in a bottle!
From The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages by Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor)
Pick off the leaves of those which are to be used in cooking, pound and sift them fine, and keep the powder in bottles, corked up tight.
From The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner by Anonymous
One is known to have lived eighteen months corked up in a phial, where it could obtain nop.
From Wild Nature Won By Kindness by Brightwen, Elizabeth
