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Unstop   Listen
verb
Unstop  v. t.  
1.
To take the stopple or stopper from; as, to unstop a bottle or a cask.
2.
To free from any obstruction; to open.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Unstop" Quotes from Famous Books



... could have come to him from Odette alone;—so the immorality (had it really existed) which he now found in the Verdurins would have been powerless, if they had not invited Odette with Forcheville and without him, to unstop the vials of his wrath and to make him scarify their 'infamy.' Doubtless Swann's voice shewed a finer perspicacity than his own when it refused to utter those words full of disgust at the Verdurins and their circle, and of joy at his having shaken himself free ...
— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust
... drawer containing bees and brood comb, and place the same in the chamber of an empty hive; taking care to stop the entrance of the hive, and give them clean water, daily, three or four days. Then unstop the mouth of the hive, and give them liberty. The operator must observe Rule 6 ...
— A Manual or an Easy Method of Managing Bees • John M. Weeks


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