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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cork/kɔːk/

▶noun

1 a buoyant, light brown substance obtained from the outer layer of the bark of the cork oak.

2 a bottle stopper made of cork.

3 a piece of cork used as a float for a fishing line or net.

4 Botany a protective layer of dead cells immediately below the bark of woody plants.

▶verb

1 close or seal (a bottle) with a cork.
■ (as adj. corked) (of wine) spoilt by tannin from the cork.

2 Baseball illicitly hollow out (a bat) and fill it with cork to make it lighter.

– derivatives
cork-like adjective.

– origin ME: from Du. and Low Ger. kork, from Sp. alcorque ‘cork-soled sandal’, from Arab. al- ‘the’ and (prob.) Sp. Arab. ḳurḳ, ḳorḳ, based on L. quercus ‘oak, cork oak’.

'cork' also found in these Oxford entries:

cambium - capsule - cork oak - corkscrew - corky - crown cork - linoleum - mat - pinboard - popgun - recork - remuage - shuttlecock - sun helmet - uncork

Forum discussions with the word(s) "cork" in the title:

"Has the cork popped for them?" - Idiom
cork (n. & adj.)
English proverb: wine, cork and corkscrew
Even if I get science in Cork
have to keep a cork in
put the cork in the jug

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