A Quick and Simple Dictionary

Cork

1. Proper noun.  Principal city of County Cork.
2. Proper noun.  County in the Republic of Ireland. (County Cork).
3. Noun.  (uncountable) The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
4. Noun.  A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
5. Noun.  An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
6. Noun.  The cork oak.
7. Noun.  (botany, lang en) The tissue that grows from the cork cambium.
8. Verb.  (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
9. Verb.  (transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
10. Verb.  To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
11. Verb.  (slang) To be quiet.
12. Verb.  To fill with cork, as the center of a baseball bat.
13. Verb.  (transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.