bung

• He let the mug fill, and then the bung was returned to its place and driven home with the hammer. —  Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess
• At length he consented to lumber up the steps with one of his little kegs: the tenacity of the bung was so exemplary that a long time was consumed in getting the advantage over it, and the water on its part was but tardy in leaping toward the tub in a series of strangulations. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
• You have only just got to fancy that it is a bung, and swipe at it with all your might. —  Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)
• Bung, bung, bung--rattle de grape, by gosh. —  Mr. Midshipman Easy
• The bung is then covered, by laying a sack filled with sand over it, and when fermentation is over--as well by this as by the other method--the casks are filled with must or wine, kept in a separate cask for the purpose. —  The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines

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