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Cork

Cork (cork)
n.(kôrk)
Cork
[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.

    * 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.

Cork

Cork (cork)
v. t.
Cork
  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.

    * 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.













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