cork : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cork	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for cork
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cork n outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc. (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells Synonym(s): phellem, cork a port city in southern Ireland the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle) Synonym(s): cork, bottle cork a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line Synonym(s): bob, bobber, cork, bobfloat v close a bottle with a cork Synonym(s): cork, cork up [ant: uncork] stuff with cork; "The baseball player stuffed his bat with cork to make it lighter"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cork \Cork\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Corked} (k[ocir]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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cork \Cork\ (k[ocir]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.