cork

IPA: kˈɔrk

(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)

(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.

(snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) Having the property of a head over heels rotation.

Examples of "cork" in Sentences

Double cork is snowboarding's must-have trick in Vancouver
If cork is deemed to be a flawed closure then move to something better.
Moe had a great time stealing then chewing up the cork from the champagne.
Pulling a cork is a nasty, dirty chore that sometimes has to be done before the joy can ensue.
I too enjoy Morecambe, like suddenly being shot into the sea like a cork from the crowded bottleneck of Lancaster.
And, because cork is a democratic troublemaker, this can happen to the world's best wines as well as more humble ones.
It goes without saying that anyone with the name of Piers Morgan shouldn't be doing anything physical above popping a cork from a champagne bottle.
April makes no difference to the Lavalle cork tree imported from central Japan; to the Sakhalin cork, its diamond bark rising into branches from a trunk of plated sand.
As has been suggested above, using a pulltaps or like designed corkscrew … insert directly into the top center of the wax capsule, when completely inserted, slowly (after all this is wine to be enjoyed rather than slugged one would hope) pull the cork from the bottle.