cork

[Cork]

A port city in southern Ireland

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The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

Noun
a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line

Noun
the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)

Noun
a port city in southern Ireland

Noun
outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.

Noun
(botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells

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Verb
stuff with cork; "The baseball player stuffed his bat with cork to make it lighter"

Verb
close a bottle with a cork

n.
The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

n.
A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.

n.
A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.

v. t.
To stop with a cork, as a bottle.

v. t.
To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.

Cork

Cork (k?rk), n. [Cf. G., Dan., & Sw. kork, D. kurk; all fr. Sp. corcho, fr. L. cortex, corticis, bark, rind. Cf. Cortex.] 1. The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose. 2. A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork. 3. A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance. &hand; Cork is sometimes used wrongly for calk, calker; calkin, a sharp piece of iron on the shoe of a horse or ox. Cork jackets, a jacket having thin pieces of cork inclosed within canvas, and used to aid in swimming. -- Cork tree (Bot.), the species of oak (Quercus Suber of Southern Europe) whose bark furnishes the cork of commerce.

Cork

Cork, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Corked (k?rkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Corking.] 1. To stop with a cork, as a bottle. 2. To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.

Tread on corked stilts a prisoner's pace.

&hand; To cork is sometimes used erroneously for to calk, to furnish the shoe of a horse or ox with sharp points, and also in the meaning of cutting with a calk.

The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

To stop with a cork, as a bottle.

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Usage Examples

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

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