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Cork - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Cork : (noun)
1: outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles
etc.
2: (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead
cells [syn: phellem]
3: a port city in southern Ireland [syn: Cork]
4: the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)
5: a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing
line [syn: bob, bobber, bobfloat]
(verb)
1: close a bottle with a cork [syn: cork up] [ant: uncork]
2: stuff with cork; "The baseball player stuffed his bat with
cork to make it lighter"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Cork : \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">Cork tree (Bot.), the species of oak ({Quercus Suber of
Southern Europe) whose bark furnishes the cork of
commerce.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Cork : \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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Cork |
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Milky_Bar_Ked: -1 degrees here in Cork "/ |
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danjoni: Declan Mulqueen. Must B related 2 the Mulqueens of Cork. |
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TimPiwnicki: @JimNorton my birffday is the 22 what are chances of getting a birffday shout out on the Cork board? |
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