Cork
[kɔːk] or [kɔrk]
Definition
(noun.) the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle).
(noun.) a port city in southern Ireland.
(noun.) outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc..
(verb.) stuff with cork; 'The baseball player stuffed his bat with cork to make it lighter'.
(verb.) close a bottle with a cork.
Edited by Edward--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.
(n.) A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.
(n.) A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.
(v. t.) To stop with a cork, as a bottle.
(v. t.) To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.
Checked by Anita
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Bark of the Quercus suber, or cork-tree.[2]. Stopple or stopper (made of cork).
Editor: Margaret
Definition
n. the outer bark of the cork-tree an oak found in the south of Europe &c.: a stopper made of cork: any stopper.—adj. made of cork.—v.t. to stop with a cork: to stop up.—ns. Cork′age corking or uncorking of bottles: a charge made by hotel-keepers for uncorking of bottles when the liquor has not been supplied from the house; Cork′-cut′ter one employed in cutting corks for bottles &c.: an instrument used for this.—adj. Corked stopped by a cork: tainted by the cork as wine: blackened by burnt cork.—ns. Cork′er a finisher: (slang) something conclusive; Cork′ing-pin a large pin probably from fastening the hair to a pad of cork; Cork′-jack′et a jacket made of or lined with cork to aid in swimming; Cork′-leg an artificial leg partly of cork; Cork′-screw a screw for drawing corks from bottles.—adj. like a cork-screw in shape.—v.i. to move in a spiral manner.—v.t. to pull out with difficulty as a cork: to obtain information from by force or cunning.—n. Cork′-tree a species of oak from which cork is obtained.—adj. Cork′y of or resembling cork: (Shak.) withered.
Typed by Deirdre
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of drawing corks at a banquet, signifies that you will soon enter a state of prosperity, in which you will revel in happiness of the most select kind. To dream of medicine corks, denotes sickness and wasted energies. To dream of seeing a fishing cork resting on clear water, denotes success. If water is disturbed you will be annoyed by unprincipled persons. To dream that you are corking bottles, denotes a well organized business and system in your living. For a young woman to dream of drawing champagne corks, indicates she will have a gay and handsome lover who will lavish much attention and money on her. She should look well to her reputation and listen to the warning of parents after this dream.
Typist: Rosa
Examples
- When the bottle is nearly full, the operator quickly withdraws it with one hand, and having a cork ready in the other, he puts it in before the water can rush out. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He broke off the cork and the end had to be shoved down into the bottle. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Attach a small toy bell to a glass rod (Fig. 166) by means of a rubber tube and pass the rod through one of two openings in a rubber cork. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In charging the apparatus, the interior, A, is nearly filled with water, or other liquid, through the opening, _f_, which is then closed by cork, which is kept in its place by a screw nut. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Of a sudden, he stopped, took the cork out of his bottle, and tossed it away. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Well done, gentleman, interposed the poor Irish traveller, this bates the cork jacket anyhow in life! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The tip was guarded by a disk of cork which we found beside his body, said the Inspector. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Corks for bottles are cut either by hand or by means of a machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And besides, there were no champagne corks among the shells. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I do not know how far corks or bladders may be useful in learning to swim, having never seen much trial of them. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I'm going to sleep where the old man corks off. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The corks should always be boiled in water containing 1 ounce to the gallon, which is also efficient in disinfecting tubes, taps, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Religion (I understand Mr. Godfrey to say, between the corks and the carving) meant love. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- On a card table a little way beyond the light was a silver icing-bucket with the necks and corks of two champagne bottles showing above the ice. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- After filtering it is again boiled, and if any scum or impurities appear on the surface they are removed, when the juice is to be bottled, corked tightly, and should be left for one year. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Mr. Pickwick paused, bottled up his vengeance, and corked it down. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- At No. 4 liquid air imprisoned in a tube and tightly corked up, blows the stopper out in a few minutes with explosive effect. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Keep the glue in a vial closely corked, and when it is to be used set the vial in boiling water. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The juices are put in bottles and are immediately corked and wired securely, and then submerged in a water bath to a depth of about 1 inch above the bottles. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- So nothing came of these trials, and Jo corked up her inkstand, and said in a fit of very wholesome humility. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The boiled water should be kept in clean, corked bottles; otherwise foreign substances from the atmosphere re?nter the water, and the advantage gained from boiling is lost. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The experiment was then made of charging the bottles with brine and generating carbon dioxide by adding lime dust and sulphuric acid and corking tightly. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
Checker: Stella