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DictionarybungContainer stopper
noun / verb

bung

BUNG/bˈʌŋ/

A stopper for sealing a container, or to seal with one.

A wooden bung partly fills the barrel’s opening.

Close-up of a wooden barrel lying on its side, with a tapered wooden bung partly seated in its round side hole.
Etymology
bungEnglishstopper for a cask

The origin is uncertain, but the earliest recorded meaning is a large stopper for a cask. The word later also named the cask opening that the stopper closed.

In context

Midwest Barrel Company2:03
pounding that bung in nice and tight and then just taking some barrel wax and uh waxing the sides of the bung there to seal that up
What You Need To Know About Head Bung Barrels

More examples

  • The loose bung allowed liquid to escape.
  • She bunged the opening tightly.
  • Remove the bung before draining the container.

Forms

bung · bungs · bunged · bunging

Similar words

stopper
Stopper is general; bung usually seals a barrel or similar container opening.
cork
Cork can name the material or a stopper made from it; a bung may be made from other materials.