Each stack of saggars, called a bung, should be set straight and not rock. From Wordnik.com. [2. Kilns] Reference
The stopper in the barrel is called the bung, and the hole is called the bung hole. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
Finally he brought out two cents, one of the kind popularly known as bung-towns, which are not generally recognized as true currency. From Wordnik.com. [Only an Irish Boy Andy Burke's Fortunes] Reference
"That's what I've wanted to do for 50 years," said Lyons, the founder and president of Alltech, after he drove a wood plug, known as a bung, into the first keg. From Wordnik.com. [Kentucky.com: Homepage] Reference
He has seven 20-meter-high sugar palm trees that he climbs every morning to take the sap of the sugar palm trees and put it in bamboo containers called bung bung. From Wordnik.com. [The Jakarta Post Breaking News] Reference
Fifa insists it is investigating English 'bung' cases. From Wordnik.com. [Football Association hopes to finally name chairman from very short list | Matt Scott] Reference
Labour to receive "bung" from Bournemouth Council for Conference at. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
Educating elites around the world in English, with British Money as a "bung"?. From Wordnik.com. [The Politics of Oil & the British Council] Reference
Money doesn't always buy you influence after all even if the word 'bung' is in your name. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference
I sent this recipe to my brother and he commented on some of the unfamiliar wording - I'm guessing "terminally crisp" just means very crisp and "bung" means toss. From Wordnik.com. [Crash Hot Potatoes] Reference
Gseaman - To "bung" means to place firmly or forcefully, and usually rapidly. From Wordnik.com. [PCLinuxOS-Forums] Reference
Hunting the living to relieve the dead toolmansevendust I see Itachi is going for the Paris Hilton "bung" eye look. From Wordnik.com. [Latest from PALGN] Reference
Leave out the bung but cover the opening with lawn. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
Leave it open until fermentation ceases, then bung up. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
I've lifted a barrel o 'whisky and put my mouth to the bung hole. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
Suddenly he saw the wolf's hairy tail come through the bung-hole. From Wordnik.com. [Roumanian Fairy Tales] Reference
When cold, bung down closely, and in a month they are fit for use. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
The bung was removed, the cask turned over, and no liquid issued from it. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)] Reference
After remaining a few weeks, rack off and bung up closely in clean casks. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
Cover the bung-hole with thin cloth and let stand in dry air four to six months. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
Cover mouth or bung-hole with thin cloth, and let stand in clean warm air for two months. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
The bung disappeared explosively inside the keg, and was replaced by a gout of white foam. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking Point] Reference
Two of them were the freaks with the great, armored, bung-heads -- and the soft and vulnerable bodies. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
Denmark say, that the dust of Alexander the Great might have served to fill the bung of a cask and that. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 1] Reference
"What, dolt! do you suppose Dr. Rickeybockey got out of his warm bed to bung up the holes in my new stocks?". From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
To this end, it raises questions of whether a decent meal, never mind a hefty cash bung, constitutes a bribe. From Wordnik.com. [Business Pays the Price of Bribery Act] Reference
As soon as he discovered that the wolves were near, he looked through the bung-hole and kept perfectly still. From Wordnik.com. [Roumanian Fairy Tales] Reference
Stir well up together and pour into a clean cask, leaving the bung-hole open, or covered with a piece of lace. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
When the fermentation moderated, I put the bung in loosely, lest stopping it tight, might cause the cask to burst. From Wordnik.com. [The Practical Distiller An Introduction To Making Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits, &c. &c. of Better Quality, and in Larger Quantities, than Produced by the Present Mode of Distilling, from the Produce of the United States] Reference
It was emptied by means of a bung fixed in the lower part of the vat, the water affording irrigation for the garden. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
Put all the ingredients into a clean cask, and stir them up well after standing twenty-four hours with the bung out. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
He had just knocked out the bung and was applying the spigot, when he heard an ominous crunching and grunting overhead. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862] Reference
Put the juice in a cask and leave it open for twenty-four hours; then bung it up, and put clay over the bung to keep the air out. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
If a way could be devised to open a valve, all the air would rush out of my compartment as easily as beer runs out of a bung-hole. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner] Reference
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