bung-hole

• “Good bung-hole caulkers needed ... there's a message just for you up here in the thread ...”

  In New Letter, Clinton's Lawyers Demand ABC Yank Film

• “As she talked, she pressed her pierced hand to her breast, where there was another hole, and whence there spurted from moment to moment a stream of blood, like a jet of wine from an open bung-hole.”

  Les Miserables

• “The best cook that ever was roasted cannot get out of a pot more than was put in it; and the weight of a cask, as a general rule, diminishes if the tap is turned, without any redress at the bung-hole.”

  Springhaven

• “Then the sparrow crept under the cover of the cart, and pecked so long at the same bung-hole that he got the bung out, and then all the wine ran out without the driver noticing it.”

  Household Tales

• “If the devil will not have them to bag, he must wring hard the spigot, and stop the bung-hole.”

  Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

• “He pulled the cork from the bung-hole of the cask, and dribbled a little on the plinth that Pan stood upon, tore off a bit of bread, dipped it in the honey, and laid it at Pan's feet.”

  The Gates Of Sleep

• “It seemed to affect Socco too, for his tone moderated a little as he coiled his whip and said, 'If I catch you people here again, I'll lop off your balls and stick them up your bung-hole.”

  Warlock

• “That we couldn't find the bung-hole of the old keg of rum”

  Old Keg of Rum

• “The elder wine must now be put into the barrel, and kept in the cellar with the bung-hole left open for a fortnight; at the end of this time, a stiff brown paper should be pasted over the bung-hole, and after standing for”

  A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes

• “Ginger, and the dry pils of Lemons, and hang it with a string at the bung-hole into the vessell, and it will make either the Cyder, or Perry, to tast as pleasantly as if it were Renish-wine, and this being done you shall clay vp the bung-hole with clay and salt mixt together, so close as is possible.”

  The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments

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