• Cork

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -ɔː(r)k

    Origin 1

    From Middle English cork ("oak bark", "cork"), from Middle Dutch curc ("cork (material or object)") or Middle Low German korck ("cork (material or object)") or Early Modern German Kork ("cork (material or object)"), 1) from Spanish corcho ("cork (material or object)") (also corcha or corche), (via Mozarabic) from Latin cortex ("bark"), or 2) from (Old) Spanish alcorque ("cork sole"), from Andalusian Arabic القورق (al-qūrq), from Latin quercus ("oak") or Latin cortex ("bark")

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    or from Aramaic

    Full definition of cork

    Noun

    cork

    (countable and uncountable; plural corks)
    1. (uncountable) The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
      • 1908, Edwin George Pinkham, Fate's a fiddler, I confess my confidence was shaken by these actions, though I knew well enough that his leg was no more cork than my own
    2. A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.Snobs feel it's hard to call it wine with a straight face, when the cork is made of plastic.
    3. An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
    4. The cork oak.
    5. (botany) The tissue that grows from the cork cambium.

    Verb

    1. (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
    2. (transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork
    3. To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
    4. (slang) To be quiet.''He was so loud I told him to cork it.
    5. To fill with cork, as the center of a baseball bat.''He corked his bat, which was discovered when it broke, causing a controversy.
    6. (transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.''The vicious tackle corked his leg.

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    Origin 2

    From the traversal path resembling that of a corkscrew.

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    Noun

    cork

    (plural corks)
    1. (snowboarding) a snowboarding aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.

    Derived terms

    Verb

    1. (snowboarding) to perform such a maneuver

    Adjective

    cork

    1. (snowboarding) having the property of a head over heels rotation

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