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Verb
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corks, plural;
  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

Noun
  1. The buoyant, light brown substance obtained from the outer layer of the bark of the cork oak
    • - cork tiles
  2. A bottle stopper, esp. one made of cork

  3. A piece of cork used as a float for a fishing line or net

  4. A protective layer of dead cells immediately below the bark of woody plants

  1. (cork) close a bottle with a cork
  2. (cork) outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.
  3. (cork) phellem: (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells
  4. stuff with cork; "The baseball player stuffed his bat with cork to make it lighter"
  5. (cork) a port city in southern Ireland
  6. (cork) bob: a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
  7. (Cork (band)) Cork is a rock duo/supergroup consisting of Eric Schenkman (formerly of the Spin Doctors) and Corky Laing (formerly of Mountain). ...
  8. (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. ...
  9. (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. ...
  10. (Cork (surname)) Cork is a surname.
  11. (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. ...
  12. (Cork (wine)) A stopper is a truncated cylindrical or conical piece of rubber, cork, glass, or plastic used to close off a glass tube, piece of laboratory glassware, a wine bottle or barrel and other containers with orifices.
  13. (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
  14. (CORK) To fall off a freefly position, decelerating rapidly and popping up like a cork in relation to other
  15. (CORK) UP: jammed, filled, crowded
  16. (CORK) Used as a stopper for the filling points of lubricating reservoirs on locomotives. (PRC)
  17. (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.
  18. (Cork (Geography)) This Irish city is really "into" making wine bottles: Cork.
  19. (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.
  20. (Cork) An unpleasant smell that is usually caused by a tainted cork stopper. Sometimes described as smelling like old, wet cardboard.
  21. (Cork) Being peric's twin isn't something you should brag about.
  22. (Cork) Float used to suspend a baited hook in the water.  See bobber.
  23. (Cork) Middle of the board or bulls-eye
  24. (Cork) One of the heralds of the Office of Arms, Ireland.
  25. (Cork) The rather obvious definition is the means by which a bottle is sealed. There is, however, a secondary meaning. A wine can be spoiled when it is "corked". This refers to the situation where the cork was not clean when inserted and bacteria spoiled the wine. ...