49 Verbs to Use for the Word plugging

I'm the plumber who pulled the plug out of Arabia!

For instance, an engineer is running with a low gauge of water, owing possibly to the tank being delayed longer than usual, he knows the water is getting low, but he says to himself, "well, if the water gets too low I will only blow out the plug," and so he continues to run until the tank arrives.

Just then I got a plug in the shoulder, and things got dizzy and dark.

In salt-water bathing, the force of the waves striking against the ears often leads to earache, long-continued inflammation, or defective hearing; to diminish this risk, insert into the ears a small plug of absorbent cotton.

"Now, girls, since we can't find that plug, we've got to do the next best thing.

"Find the thole-pins, Bill, while I cut a plug for her bottom out of this broomstick," Wade said.

"You don't mean the cashier of the bank?" Old Mr. Tomwit drew out a plug of Black Mule tobacco, set some gapped, discolored teeth into corner, nodded at Peter silently, at the same time utilizing the nod to tear off a large quid.

'I took this opportunity (the relaying of the water-main) of establishing two powerful fire-plugs (one in the Front Court, and one in the Magnetic Ground); a stock of fire-hose adapted to the "Brigade-Screw" having been previously secured in the Observatory.''Two wires, intended for the examination of spontaneous earth-currents, have been carried from the Magnetic Observatory to the Railway Station in the town of Greenwich.

The heat from the firebox will have no effect on this fusible plug as long as the crown sheet is covered with water, but the moment that the water level falls below the top of the crown sheet, thereby exposing the plug, this soft metal is melted and runs out, allows the steam to rush down through the opening in the lug, putting out the fire and preventing any injury to the boiler.

I extracted the plug from the tubular aperture through which I had pumped in the extra quantity of air that the Astronaut contained; and substituted the sliding valve I had arranged for the purpose, with a small hole which, by adjustment to the tube, would give the means of regulating the air-passage at pleasure.

" "No." The old New Englander fished from a hip pocket a plug of tobacco, cut off a liberal chew, and stowed this in his cheek.

Swiftly he withdrew the bit, fitted the plug into the hole, and pushed it home.

The lower portion of the instrument as formerly made for me by the late Mr. Tisley, optician, Brompton Road, is a cap that surrounds the body of the whistle, and is itself fixed to the screw that forms the plug.

"'Well, git your plug, and we'll amble along together.'

"Got any spark plugs?" asked Jimsy, as the machine came to a halt.

"They are hitching their plugs to the fence.

Ye know where ye left the plugs and oars?

"I told them not to get in my boat, but they must have, and they've loosened the drain plug so that it came out a moment ago.

After firing several rounds at two hundred yards, only one ball of Mr. Greener's, which had struck the target, was found to have the plug driven home, the others had all lost their plugs.

On narrow country roads three out of five will behave badly, and unless the outward signs are unmistakable, it is never safe to assume one is meeting an old plug,even the plug sometimes jumps the ditch.

For mechanical convenience, a screw is used whose pitch is 25 to the inch; therefore one turn of the cap moves the plug one twenty-fifth of an inch, or ten two-hundred-and-fiftieths.

This gentleman, in his place, offsets at least a thousand square plugs in round holes.

The water was first brought in barrels drawn by horses, till some officer came and opened the fire plug.

but she's had a choice morsel, if it was a small wan," exclaimed O'Riley in surprise, as he picked up a plug of tobacco.

By placing these plugs with their platinum terminals in circuit with a local battery the current from this local battery was given a passage through the coherer by the action of the electric waves coming through the ether.

49 Verbs to Use for the Word  plugging