Definitions
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- adjective Describing a container possessing a significant amount of
ullage (empty space).
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Examples
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'Thought it couldn't be worse than the Club; but I'll swear he buys ullaged liquor and doctors it with gin and ink (_looking round the room_).
Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900
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'Thought it couldn't be worse than the Club, but I'll swear he buys ullaged liquor and doctors it with gin and ink (looking round the room.)
The Story of the Gadsbys Rudyard Kipling 1900
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After this operation, they are suffered to remain undisturbed (save that they are occasionally ullaged,) till about to be shipped, when they are racked off a second time, and fined down with the white of ten eggs to each hogshead; these whites are well beat up together with a small handful of white salt; after this fining, when rested, the hogsheads are filled up again with pure wine, and then carefully bunged down with wooden bungs, surrounded with clean linen to prevent leaking; in this state the wines are immediately shipped.
The American Practical Brewer and Tanner Joseph Coppinger
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-- came to drink it he found eleven bottles out of twelve completely ullaged -- ha! ha!
The Island Pharisees John Galsworthy 1900
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-- came to drink it he found eleven bottles out of twelve completely ullaged -- ha! ha!
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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