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Bung

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Bung
experiences modified and extreme levels of want. [Br. Lit.: Sketches by Boz]
See : Poverty
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But the sparrow crept under the tilt of the cart, and pecked at the bung of one of the casks till she loosened it; and than all the wine ran out, without the carter seeing it.
Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context
Because those whalemen did not then, and do not now, try out their oil at sea as the Southern ships have always done; but cutting up the fresh blubber in small bits, thrust it through the bung holes of large casks, and carry it home in that manner; the shortness of the season in those Icy Seas, and the sudden and violent storms to which they are exposed, forbidding any other course.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
de Chagny put his two hands together underneath it and, with a last effort, I burst the bung.
The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux, Gaston View in context
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