cork
IPA: kˈɔrk
noun
- (botany, uncountable) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
- The phellem of the cork oak, used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
- A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
- An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
- The cork oak, Quercus suber.
- (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
- Principal city of County Cork.
- County in the Republic of Ireland. (County Cork)
verb
- (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
- (transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
- To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
- To fill with cork.
- (transitive, baseball) To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.
- (transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
- (fishing) To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.
- (transitive) To block (a street) illegally, to allow a protest or other activity to take place without traffic.
- (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) To perform such a maneuver.
adjective
- (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) Having the property of a head over heels rotation.
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Examples of "cork" in Sentences
- A champagne cork is hard to grab.
- The ink was sealed inside the quill with cork.
- Cork was in the UK at the time of the construction.
- Cork is the epitome of the 'ambiguously named title'.
- It is the see of the Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross.
- It comprised the whole of the County of the City of Cork.
- As the worm is twisted into the cork, the levers are raised.
- The village is situated near the border of Cork and Limerick.
- A cork carrying the test thermometer is used to close the jar.
- It participates in games of the Muskerry division of the Cork GAA.