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.

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