Cork \Cork\ (k[^o]rk), n. [Cf. G., Dan., & Sw. kork, D. kurk; all fr. Sp. corcho, fr. L. cortex, corticis, bark, rind. Cf. {Cortex}.] 1. The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree ({Quercus Suber}), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See {Cutose}.
2. A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.
3. A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.
Note: Cork is sometimes used wrongly for calk, calker; calkin, a sharp piece of iron on the shoe of a horse or ox.
{Cork jackets}, a jacket having thin pieces of cork inclosed within canvas, and used to aid in swimming.
{Cork tree} (Bot.), the species of oak ({Quercus Suber} of Southern Europe) whose bark furnishes the cork of commerce.
Cork \Cork\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Corked} (k[^o]rkt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Corking}.] 1. To stop with a cork, as a bottle.
2. To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.
Tread on corked stilts a prisoner's pace. --Bp. Hall.
Note: To cork is sometimes used erroneously for to calk, to furnish the shoe of a horse or ox with sharp points, and also in the meaning of cutting with a calk.
There's no longer a need to whine about the cork that accidentally falls into the wine bottle.
THE experience of a small cork company in northern Portugal is a telling example of how times are getting tough for Portuguese exporters.
The cork of export controls should follow.
Flight data and a look at the motors showed the rockets performed well during Monday's launch and did not have any cork insulation loss like that suspected of damaging shuttle tiles on the last mission in December.
"We had the highest and quickest dinner party and achieved the longest distance for a champagne cork when opened," Darwin said.
Calabrese, said he once used transfers to create a $900 evening dress and spends much time looking for new things to stick on clothes. "Right now, I'm looking at a fabric developed out of cork," he said.
To be sure, Watt, Burford & Co. attempted to curtail regulation, or at least to cork the flow.
The open design also inhibits condensate from forming on the cork, which can cause seepage or mildew.
Hair is, at least for three-thumbed tiers like myself, easier to shape than balsa or cork.
Almost every hole is marked by the vivid shapes and luminous bark of cork trees. The course swoops both uphill and down and offers splendid views of the Andalucian countryside.
The volunteer, whose face was blackened with burned cork, swung about six feet above ground, without injury.
Legend has it that it was there, in 1870, that a group of army officers, looking for something to do on a rainy day, stuck some feathers into a champagne cork and began hitting it over a rope they'd stretched across a hallway.
Today we're appalled by this form of entertainment in which whites blackened their faces and parodied black song and dance; even more appalling is the fact that black minstrels were required to cork up just like whites.
Leaping onto the deck as the boat was tied up, he received a kiss from his girlfriend and popped the cork of a bottle of French champagne.