cork

1. n. The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose. Source: opted

2. n. A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork. Source: opted

3. n. A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance. Source: opted

4. v. t. To stop with a cork, as a bottle. Source: opted

5. v. t. To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork. Source: opted

6. n. outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc. Source: wordnet

7. n. (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells Source: wordnet

8. n. the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle) Source: wordnet

9. n. a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line Source: wordnet

10. v. close a bottle with a cork Source: wordnet

11. v. stuff with cork Source: wordnet

12. 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. 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. Source: webster

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