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corked, past tense; corks, 3rd person singular present; corking, present participle; corked, past participle;
  1. Close or seal (a bottle) with a cork

  2. (of wine) Spoiled by tannin from the cork

  3. Draw with burnt cork

  4. Illicitly hollow out (a baseball bat) and fill it with cork to make it lighter

  1. bang-up: very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"
  2. (cork) outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.
  3. (cork) close a bottle with a cork
  4. (cork) phellem: (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells
  5. stuff with cork; "The baseball player stuffed his bat with cork to make it lighter"
  6. (cork) a port city in southern Ireland
  7. In botany, a drupe is a fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin; and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a shell (the pit or stone or pyrene) of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. These fruits develop from a single carpel, and mostly from flowers with superior ovaries. ...
  8. (Cork (band)) Cork is a rock duo/supergroup consisting of Eric Schenkman (formerly of the Spin Doctors) and Corky Laing (formerly of Mountain). ...
  9. (Cork (city in Ireland)) Cork (from corcach, meaning "swamp") is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the island of Ireland's third most populous city. It is the principal city and administrative centre of County Cork and the largest city in the province of Munster. ...
  10. (Cork (material)) Cork is an impermeable, buoyant material, a prime-subset of generic cork tissue that is harvested for commercial use primarily from Quercus suber (the Cork Oak), which is endemic to southwest Europe and northwest Africa. ...
  11. (Cork (surname)) Cork is a surname.
  12. (Cork (tissue)) Cork cambium is a tissue found in many vascular plants as part of the periderm. The cork cambium is a lateral meristem and is responsible for secondary growth that replaces the epidermis in roots and stems. ...
  13. (corkingly) In a corking manner; splendidly
  14. (Cork) The center of the board This comes from the cork in the end of a keg where it is tapped. The ends of kegs were used for targets in the beginning of darts
  15. (Cork) Quercus Suber, the bark of the cork oak tree, which is boiled, punched, washed, and coated for use as a wine stopper.
  16. (CORK) To fall off a freefly position, decelerating rapidly and popping up like a cork in relation to other
  17. (CORK) UP: jammed, filled, crowded
  18. (CORK) Used as a stopper for the filling points of lubricating reservoirs on locomotives. (PRC)
  19. (Cork (Cork veneer)) They have natural textures with no definite pattern or design. Cork veneer is shaved from cork planks of blocks and laminated to a substrate that may be colored or plain. Cork naturally absorbs sound, insulates, provides contrast and can be used as a bulletin board.
  20. (Cork (Geography)) This Irish city is really "into" making wine bottles: Cork.
  21. (Cork(y)) said of a wine that smells more of cork than it does of wine. Such an odor will usually not dissipate, and, if noticed to excess in a wine, provides sufficient reason for returning it to the retailer or restaurateur.
  22. (Cork) An unpleasant smell that is usually caused by a tainted cork stopper. Sometimes described as smelling like old, wet cardboard.
  23. (Cork) Another name for the bullseye.
  24. (Cork) Being peric's twin isn't something you should brag about.
  25. (Cork) Float used to suspend a baited hook in the water.  See bobber.