The hatchets of "Carrie," and Cora Vere, Would knock out the spigots and bungs of whisky.
The elastic bungs already described, will prevent the bursting of the casks; but something must be done to repress the fermentation, lest it should destroy the whole of the sugar, and make the wine unpalatably harsh.
This clay is employed as a fire clay for making the bungs or seggars, or coarse earthenware cases, in which china ware is fired.
But so far as the evidence which I have cited allows us to judge, the use of nails as spiritual bungs appears to be commoner than their use as mental refreshers.
In one set of cases the nails act as corks or bungs to bottle up and imprison a troublesome spirit; in the other set of cases they act as spurs or goads to refresh his memory and stimulate his activity.
Similarly in Corea an English lady observed at a cross-road a small log with several holes like those of a mouse-trap, one of which was plugged up doubly with bungs of wood.
If no breakdown occurs, the Buckets count one in their favour, and the Bungs repeat the process.
When a breakdown occurs the Bungs take the place of the Buckets.
Put corks or bungs into the bottles, tie over them a piece of bladder, and store away in a dry place.
Chips and Bungsvolunteered to head a mutiny, and a round-robin was drawn up and signed.
When such a breakdown occurs, the two parties change places, the bungs taking the place of the buckets; otherwise the game is repeated with the same bungs and buckets.
If all of the bungs succeed in seating themselves without any break occurring among the buckets, it counts one in favor of the buckets.
Again casting a speculative eye over the field, she discerned a new shop in the alley, the sign of which announced that the owner dealt in "Bungs and Fawcetts.
Uncle Jed was laid up with the rheumatism, and Mr. Snawdor's entire stock in trade had been put in a wheelbarrow and dumped into the street, and a strange sign already replaced his old one of "Bungs and Fawcetts.
Lay the casks so that the bung-holes are upward, and do not drive the bungs more tightly in place than is necessary, for they are to be extracted before Frankfort is reached, that another friend of mine may profit by the wine.
The bungs of the casks were to be secured with a tin-plate, and under a seal of office, each cask being branded with the letters "G.
Then they put in the bungs and tied all the hogsheads together with ropes that went between them, and they threw them over the side of the ship into the water.
So Uncle John put the great stoppers that they call bungs into the bung-holes in the kegs, so that the cider would not run out.
After grave reflection, I am of opinion, that Miss Bungs carried her opposition to fortune-hunters, beyond the bounds of reason.
If Miss Bungs were living, even that inexorable hater of all fortune-hunters would admit, that the punishment of Sir Samuel Morland was sufficient for his crimes.
Down on the wharf the man with the mallet was patiently loosening the bungs again.
For driving bungs solidly, this method is to be commended.
When the bungs were all loosened, that trusting man with the mallet meandered slowly away, having paid no attention whatever to the boys who watched him so innocently.
Of this, Mr. Wholesome told me one day, and thought I had better remain to go through the cellars and drive out the bungs and drop in the testers, and the like.
I recall well the long cellar running far back under Water street, with its rows of great casks, of which Wholesome and I started the bungs while awaiting the new-comers.
In a down-draught kiln the bungs over any vent must be raised on fire tiles to permit the escape of the flames.
When all the bungs are filled up and piled in position, the trials and cones placed, the hatch is bricked up.
The glazed ware, which was fired harder than the biscuit, was saggared in bungs as usual up to about five feet; the biscuit piled on top and protected by old saggars and cracked pots from the roughest fire.
These bungs are built at intervals that permit the flames to penetrate between them and give a good even fire all over the chamber.
Possessing two Bungs to one Soot, he decided on the latter alternative.
Either you must have Master Bung, or else you are asking for Stiffy's cards without having any Bungs at all; because I've got Miss myself.
Upon the very point of following him down, the attention of the exasperated seamen was called off to a party who had just then taken the recreant Bungs in hand.
