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Cork Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Cork?
[n] a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
[n] the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle) [n] a port city in southern Ireland [n] outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc. [n] (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells [v] close a bottle with a cork Synonyms | Synonyms for Cork: bob | bobber | bobfloat | cork up | phellem Related Terms | Find terms related to Cork: air | asphyxiate | balsa | balsa raft | bar | bark | bedarken | besmirch | bind | black | blacken | blackwash | block | block up | blockade | blot | blotch | bob | bonnet | boom | bottle up | box up | bubble | bung | buoy | cage | cap | Carling float | caulk | ceil | censor | chaff | charcoal | check | check valve | chink | chip | choke | choke off | choke up | clamp down on | clog | clog up | cloister | cobweb | cock | coif | confine | congest | constipate | constrain | coop | coop in | coop up | cork up | cortex | cover | crack down on | crib | crown | crush | dam | dam up | damp down | darken | denigrate | detain | dinge | dome | down | drown | dust | ebonize | encage | enclose | epicarp | ether | extinguish | fairy | faucet | feather | fence in | fill | fill up | float | flue | fluff | foam | foul | froth | fuzz | gag | gossamer | hat | hem in | hold | hold down | hold in | hold in custody | hold in restraint | hood | immure | impound | inhibit | ink | jam | jump on | keep | keep down | keep in | keep in custody | keep in detention | keep under | kill | lid | life buoy | life preserver | life raft | lock in | maintain | melanize | mew | mew up | mote | murk | muzzle | nigrify | obstipate | obstruct | oversmoke | pack | peel | peeling | peg | pen | pen up | phellum | pin | plug | plug up | pontoon | pound | pour water on | preserve | put down | quash | quell | quench | raft | rail in | repress | restrain | restrict | retain | rind | roof | roof in | save | save up | sea cock | seal up | shackle | shade | shadow | shut down on | shut in | shut up | silence | sit down on | sit on | skin | smash | smirch | smoke | smother | smudge | smut | smutch | soot | spigot | spike | spile | spill | sponge | spume | squash | squelch | stanch | stay | stench | stifle | stop | stop up | stopgap | stopper | stopple | strangle | straw | stuff | stuff up | stultify | subdue | suffocate | suppress | surfboard | tap | thistledown | throttle | tip | top | valve | wall in See Also | bark | city | Eire | fishing gear | fishing rig | fishing tackle | float | Ireland | Irish Free State | metropolis | plant material | plug | plug | port | rig | secure | stop up | stopper | stopple | tackle | urban center | wine bottle Cork In Webster's Dictionary \Cork\ (k[^o]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.
Note: 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\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Corked} (k[^o]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. --Bp. Hall. Note: 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. |
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