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Definition cork

Etymology 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 ??????????‎ (al-q?rq), from Latin quercus (“oak”) or Latin cortex (“bark”) or from Aramaic [Term?].

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.
2. A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
3. An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
4. The cork oak, Quercus suber.
5. (botany) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.

Verb

cork (third-person singular simple present corks, present participle corking, simple past and past participle corked)

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. To fill with cork, as the center of a baseball bat.
5. (transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
6. (fishing) 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.

Etymology 2

From the traversal path resembling that of a corkscrew.

Noun

cork (plural corks)

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

Verb

cork (third-person singular simple present corks, present participle corking, simple past and past participle corked)

1. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) To perform such a maneuver.

Adjective

cork (not comparable)

1. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) Having the property of a head over heels rotation.

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