cork
- Proper noun. Principal city of County Cork.
- Proper noun. County in the Republic of Ireland. (County Cork).
- 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.
- Noun. A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
- Noun. An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
- Noun. The cork oak.
- Noun. (botany, lang en) The tissue that grows from the cork cambium.
- Verb. (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
- Verb. (transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
- Verb. To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
- Verb. (slang) To be quiet.
- Verb. To fill with cork, as the center of a baseball bat.
- Verb. (transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
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