stop up

The inquest heard this was acceptable within Nottingham City Transport's policies, which allow buses to leave stops up to a minute early.

"I now put the food away when I go to bed, but in the morning I've found the towel I've used to stop up the gap is pulled out and chewed too."

Others have been stopped up on purpose with cotton balls or whatever else came to hand in an emergency after air valves stuck open.

From there, slowly pull the snake back out and throw away the hair and other gunk that was stopping up your drain.

The dam stopped up Haiti’s largest river, the Artibonite, and flooded some of the most fertile farmland in the central plateau.