cork
/kɔɹk/ noun B2- 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. · Snobs feel it's hard to call it wine with a straight face when the cork is made of plastic.
- An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
- The cork oak, Quercus suber.
Plural corks
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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A pin, a cork, and a card, and we add him to the Baker Street collection!” He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture.
His first movement was to free himself by a violent push from the encircling arms of his mother, and to rush forward to the casket from whence the count had taken the phial of elixir; then, without asking permission of anyone, he proceeded, in all the wilfulness of a spoiled child unaccustomed to restrain either whims or caprices, to pull the corks out of all the bottles.
The latter seemed to have resigned himself; he drew the corks, and partook largely of the fish with the garlic and fat.
Other matches
- cork To perform such a maneuver. C2
- cork To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stop... C2
- cork An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation wher... C2
- cork Having the property of a head over heels rotation. C2
- cork off To fall asleep.
- cork out to fall asleep.
- cork up To enclose in a bottle sealed with a cork.
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