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Webster 1913 Edition

Cork

Cork

(kôrk)
,
Noun.
[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.
☞
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.

Cork

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Corked
(kôrkt)
;
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.
☞ 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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cork

CORK

,
Noun.
[G., L., bark, rind, shell, crust.]
1.
A glandiferous tree, a species of Quercus, growing in Spain and Portugal, having a thick, rough, fungous, cleft bark.
2.
The outer bark of the tree, or epidermis, of which stopples for bottles and casks are made. This outer bark is taken off, and a new epidermis is formed, which, in six or seven years, becomes fit for use. This bark is also burnt to make a kind of light black, called Spanish black.
3.
A stopple for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.

CORK

,
Verb.
T.
To stop bottles or casks with corks; to confine or make fast with a cork.

Definition 2024

Cork

Cork

See also: cork

English

Proper noun

Cork

  1. Principal city of County Cork.
  2. County in the Republic of Ireland. (County Cork)

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cork

cork

See also: Cork

English

Champagne corks (noun sense 2)

Noun

cork ‎(countable and uncountable, plural corks)

  1. (uncountable) The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
    • 1908, Edwin George Pinkham, Fate's a fiddler, page 108:
      I confess my confidence was shaken by these actions, though I knew well enough that his leg was no more cork than my own
  2. A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
    Snobs feel it's hard to call it wine with a straight face when the cork is made of plastic.
  3. An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
  4. The cork oak, Quercus suber.
  5. (botany) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants
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Verb

cork ‎(third-person singular simple present corks, present participle corking, simple past and past participle corked)

  1. (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
    • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)
      Arms draped on shoulders, kick-stepping in circles, they swing bottles of wine. Purpled thumbs cork the bottles. The wine leaps and jumps behind green glass.
  2. (transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork
  3. To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
  4. To fill with cork, as the center of a baseball bat.
    He corked his bat, which was discovered when it broke, causing a controversy.
  5. (transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
    The vicious tackle corked his leg.
    • 2006, Joseph N. Santamaria, The Education of Dr Joe, page 60,
      Injuries, which seemed to be of an inconsequential nature, were often sustained, such as a sprained ankle, a dislocated phalanx, a twisted foot, a corked leg and so on.
    • 2007, Shaun A. Saunders, Navigating in the New World, page 202,
      As he moved away again, William winced at an ache in his thigh.
      ‘Must have corked my leg when I got up,’ he thought.
    • 2008, Christopher J. Holcroft, Canyon, page 93,
      “I′m okay. I must have corked my thigh when Bruce fell onto me. I′ll be fine.”
    • 2010, Andrew Stojanovski, Dog Ear Cafe, large print 16pt, page 191,
      Much to my relief he had only corked his leg when he had jumped.
    • 2010, Ben Cousins, Ben Cousins: My Life Story, page 108,
      I corked my thigh late in the game, which we won, and came off.
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Etymology 2

From the traversal path resembling that of a corkscrew.[2]

Noun

cork ‎(plural corks)

  1. (snowboarding) A snowboarding aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
Derived terms
  • double cork (two such maneuvers in a single jump)
  • triple cork (three such maneuvers in a single jump)

Verb

cork ‎(third-person singular simple present corks, present participle corking, simple past and past participle corked)

  1. (snowboarding) To perform such a maneuver.

Adjective

cork ‎(not comparable)

  1. (snowboarding) Having the property of a head over heels rotation.

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References

  1. ↑ http://photo.pds.org:5004/view/Entry/41541#eid8154767
  2. ↑ BBC Sport, "Sochi 2014: A jargon-busting guide to the halfpipe", 11 February 2014

Etymology

From Middle English cork ‎(“oak bark, cork”), from Middle Dutch curc ‎(“cork (material or object)”) or Middle Low German korck ‎(“cork (material or object)”) or Early Modern German Kork ‎(“cork (material or object)”), 1) from Spanish corcho ‎(“cork (material or object)”) (also corcha or corche), (via Mozarabic) from Latin cortex ‎(“bark”), or 2) from (Old) Spanish alcorque ‎(“cork sole”), from Andalusian Arabic اَلْقُورْق ‎(al-qūrq), from Latin quercus ‎(“oak”) or Latin cortex ‎(“bark”)[1] or from Aramaic

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