cork

Champagne corks (noun sense 2)

Meanings

Noun

  • The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
  • A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
  • An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
  • The cork oak, Quercus suber.
  • The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
  • An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.

Verb

  • To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
  • To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
  • To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
  • To fill with cork, as the center of a baseball bat.
  • To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
  • To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.
  • To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.
  • To perform such a maneuver.

Adjective

  • Having the property of a head over heels rotation.

Origin

  • From Middle English cork, from Middle Dutch curc, either from Spanish corcho (also corcha or corche) or from Old Spanish alcorque. cortex.
  • From the traversal path resembling that of a corkscrew.

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