BUNG

n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.

2.
n.

The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.

3.
n.

A sharper or pickpocket. [Obs. & Low] You filthy bung, away. Shak.

4.
v.

To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up. To bung up, to use up, as by bruising or over exertion; to exhaust or incapacitate for action. [Low] He had bunged up his mouth that he should not have spoken these three years. Shelton (Trans. Don Quixote).

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