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noun

Cork n.

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.

verb

Cork v. t. (past & past part. corked; pres. part. 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." 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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cork" Quotes from Famous Books

... remains that on the appointed night the chosen troupe, approximately word-perfect, and with spirits something chastened by stage fright, were assembled in the clerk's room of the Enniscar Town Hall, round a large basin filled horribly with a compound of burnt cork and water. ...

— All on the Irish Shore - Irish Sketches • E. Somerville and Martin Ross

... wiser. Professors of rhetoric, no doubt, must have such discussions; but when you wish to be amused by the thing itself, it is somewhat disappointing to be presented with metaphysical analysis. It is like instituting an examination of the glass and cork of a champagne bottle, and a chemical testing of the wine. In the very process the volatile and sparkling draught which was to delight the palate has become like ditch water, vapid and dead. What I mean is, that, call it wit or humour, ...

— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay

... Leland is characterised in the "Critical Review" for April, 1765, as the work of "a preferment-hunting toad-eater, who, while his patron happened to go out of his depth, tells him that he is treading good ground; but at the same time offers him the use of a cork-jacket to ...

— Calamities and Quarrels of Authors • Isaac D'Israeli

... do I know about poteen, is it? How dare you, sir? Was there a better maker of poteen in the County Cork than my own ...

— Duty, and other Irish Comedies • Seumas O'Brien

... said Paul. He had outlined her in charcoal and burnt cork, and it would be too dark to do any ...

— The Holiday Round • A. A. Milne

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