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Webster 1913 Edition


Corked

Corked

(k?rkt)
,
Adj.
having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork;
as, a bottle of wine is
corked
.

Definition 2024


corked

corked

English

Verb

corked

  1. simple past tense and past participle of cork

Adjective

corked (comparative more corked, superlative most corked)

  1. Of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork.
    • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 554:
      Once someone discovered a bottle of wine in the sand that was still corked.
  2. Of (a bottle of) wine, tainted by mould/mold in the cork.
    Waiter, this wine is corked. Could you bring us another bottle?

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