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Meanings of stopped-up in English

(Of a nose) blocked.

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        Having narrow opening filled.

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              Examples for "chinked"
              Examples for "chinked"
              1
              The cabins were built of logs and chinked with rock and mud.
              Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
              2
              A couple of these chinked together as they dropped into the bag.
              Corporal Sam and Other Stories
              3
              It was built of saplings, eight feet square and chinked with mud.
              The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academ...
              4
              Brodie and Auld's houses are cold because they only half chinked them.
              The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825
              5
              Hearne the Romany was poor, Pine the Gentile chinked gold in his pockets.
              Red Money
              Usage of stopped-up in English
              1
              Now and then he stopped, almost ready to burst like a stopped-up pipe.
              Original Short Stories — Volume 10