1.  cork(n = noun.substance) Array - outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.; Array
is a kind of bark, plant material, plant substance
Derived form verb cork₁

2.  cork(n = noun.substance) phellem - (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells; Array
is a kind of bark

3.  cork(n = noun.location) Array - a port city in southern Ireland; Array
is a kind of city, metropolis, urban center, port
is a part of eire, ireland, irish republic, republic of ireland

4.  cork(n = noun.artifact) bottle cork - the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle); Array
is a kind of plug, stopper, stopple
is a part of wine bottle
Derived forms verb cork₁, adjective corky₁

5.  cork(n = noun.artifact) bob, bobber, bobfloat - a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line; Array
is a kind of float
is a member of fishing gear, fishing rig, fishing tackle, rig, tackle

1.  cork(v = verb.contact) cork up - close a bottle with a cork; Array
is one way to plug, secure, stop up
Antonym: uncork
Derived forms noun cork₄, noun cork₁, noun corker₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

2.  cork(v = verb.change) Array - stuff with cork; "The baseball player stuffed his bat with cork to make it lighter"
is one way to stuff
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

1.  The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose. [1913 Webster]

2.  A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork. [1913 Webster]

3.  A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance. [1913 Webster]
" Cork is sometimes used wrongly for calk, calker; calkin, a sharp piece of iron on the shoe of a horse or ox." [1913 Webster]

1.  To stop with a cork, as a bottle. [1913 Webster]

2.  To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork. [1913 Webster]
" 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." [1913 Webster]
"Tread on corked stilts a prisoner's pace." [1913 Webster]

cork, n. & v.
--n.
1 the buoyant light-brown bark of the cork-oak.
2 a bottle-stopper of cork or other material.
3 a float of cork used in fishing etc.
4 Bot. a protective layer of dead cells immediately below the bark of woody plants.
5 (attrib.) made of cork.
--v.tr. (often foll. by up)
1 stop or confine.
2 restrain (feelings etc.).
3 blacken with burnt cork.

Idiom:
cork-oak a S. European oak, Quercus suber. cork-tipped Brit. (of a cigarette) having a filter of corklike material.

Derivative:
corklike adj.

Etymology:
ME f. Du. & LG kork f. Sp. alcorque cork sole, perh. f. Arab.

N  stopper, stopple, plug, cork, bung, spike, spill, stopcock, tap, rammer, ram, ramrod, piston, stop-gap, wadding, stuffing, padding, stopping, dossil, pledget, tompion, tourniquet, cover, valve, vent peg, spigot, slide valve, janitor, doorkeeper, porter, warder, beadle, cerberus, ostiary.

N  levity, lightness, imponderability, buoyancy, volatility, feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, cobweb, gossamer, straw, cork, bubble, balloon, float, buoy, ether, air, leaven, ferment, barm, yeast, lighter-than-air balloon, helium balloon, hydrogen balloon, hot air balloon, convection, thermal draft, thermal, light, subtile, airy, imponderous, imponderable, astatic, weightless, ethereal, sublimated, gossamery, suberose, suberous, uncompressed, volatile, buoyant, floating, portable, light as a feather, light as a thistle, light as air, lighter than air, rise like a balloon, float like a balloon.

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