A bunghole is a hole bored in a liquid-tight barrel. The hole is capped with a large cork-like object called a bung. Traditional wooden barrels in Cutchogue Modern aluminium beer barrels - also called casks - outside the Castle Rock microbrewery in Nottingham, England A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container, traditionally made of wood staves and bound with iron hoops. ... A cork stopper for a wine bottle A Champagne cork A stopper is a truncated conical piece of rubber or cork used to close off a glass tube, piece of laboratory glassware, a wine bottle or barrel and other containers with orifices. ... A jug with a cork bung. ...

Bungholes were first used on wooden barrels, and were typically bored by the purchaser of the barrel using a brace and bit. Bungholes can be bored in either head (end) of a barrel or in one of the staves (side). With the bung removed, a tapered faucet can be attached to aid with dispensing. When barrels full of a commodity were shipped, the recipient would often bore new bungholes of the most suitable size and placement rather than remove the existing bung. Wooden barrels manufactured by specialty firms today usually are bored by the maker with suitable bungholes, since the hobbyists who purchase them for the making of beer, wine, and fermented foods often do not have a suitable brace and bit. For other uses, see Wood (disambiguation). ... A brace A brace or brace and bit is a hand tool used to drill holes, usually in wood. ... For other uses, see Beer (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Wine (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Fermentation. ...

Closed-head steel barrels and drums now used for shipment of chemicals and petroleum products have a standardized bunghole arrangement, with one 2" NPT and one 3/4" NPT threaded bunghole on opposite sides of the top head. Some steel barrels are also equipped with a 2" threaded bunghole on the side. Threaded pipe and elbow National Pipe Thread is a U.S. standard for tapered (NPT) or straight (NPS) threads used to join pipes and fittings. ...

In his work, Hamlet, William Shakespeare makes a passing reference to bungholes, as Hamlet contemplates the skull of his old friend Yorick, and how even such high mortals as Alexander the Great must inevitably return to lowly dust: For other uses, see Hamlet (disambiguation). ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... For the film of the same name, see Alexander the Great (1956 film). ...

Hamlet: To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?

Horatio: 'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.

Hamlet: No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel?

Slang use

The terms bung and bunghole have also been used as slang for anus as early as the 13th century. A translation of Dante's Inferno to English from the original Italian uses the term bung when describing the grotesque appearance of a particular sinner who has been split from head to crotch, with his bowels trailing behind him: For other uses, see Slang (disambiguation). ... This article is about the bodily orifice. ... (12th century - 13th century - 14th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 13th century was that century which lasted from 1201 to 1300. ... Dante in a fresco series of famous men by Andrea del Castagno, ca. ...

Between his legs all of his red guts hung with the heart, the lungs, the liver, the gall bladder, and the shriveled sac that passes shit to the bung.

More recently, this slang use was spoken by President Lyndon Johnson during an inadvertently taped phone call in 1964 in which he orders some pants. [1] However, the best-known modern use of the slang term (in the United States, at least) is by Beavis of Beavis and Butt-head^{[citation needed]}. The actual definition of the term was given in one episode of Beavis and Butt-head when two Border Patrol officers hopelessly consulted a dictionary after being unable to understand an over-caffeinated Beavis in his ranting The Great Cornholio persona: "I am the great Cornholio! I need TP for my bunghole!" Federal courts Supreme Court Circuit Courts of Appeal District Courts Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Atlas  US Government Portal      For other uses, see President of the United States (disambiguation). ... Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908–January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was an American politician. ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ... Germanic trousers of the 4th century found in the Thorsberg moor, Germany Early use of trousers in France: a sans-culotte by Louis-Léopold Boilly. ... Information Aliases Cornholio Gender Male Age Approx. ... Beavis and Butt-head is an American animated television series created by Mike Judge. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... For other uses, see Dictionary (disambiguation). ... Beavis as The Great Cornholio. ...

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