cork : Idioms & Phrases


bottle cork

  • noun the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)
    cork.
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chinese cork oak

  • noun medium to large deciduous tree of China, Japan, and Korea having thick corky bark
    Quercus variabilis.
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cork fossil

Cork" fos`sil
Definitions
  1. (Min.) A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.
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cork jacket

  • noun life preserver consisting of a sleeveless jacket of buoyant or inflatable design
    life jacket; cork jacket; life vest.
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Cork jackets

  • noun life preserver consisting of a sleeveless jacket of buoyant or inflatable design
    life jacket; cork jacket; life vest.
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  • a jacket having thin pieces of cork inclosed within canvas, and used to aid in swimming.
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cork oak

  • noun medium-sized evergreen oak of southern Europe and northern Africa having thick corky bark that is periodically stripped to yield commercial cork
    Quercus suber.
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Cork tree

  • noun deciduous tree of China and Manchuria having a turpentine aroma and handsome compound leaves turning yellow in autumn and deeply fissured corky bark
    Phellodendron amurense.
  • noun prickly Australian coral tree having soft spongy wood
    Erythrina vespertilio.
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  • (Bot.), the species of oak (Quercus Suber of Southern Europe) whose bark furnishes the cork of commerce.
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cork up

  • verb close a bottle with a cork
    cork.
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corking pin

Cork"ing pin`
Definitions
  1. A pin of a large size, formerly used attaching a woman's headdress to a cork mold. Obs. Swift.
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Fossil cork, flax, paper, ∨ wood

  • varieties of amianthus.
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Mountain cork

  • (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling cork in its texture.
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Rock cork

  • (Min.), a variety of asbestus the fibers of which are loosely interlaced. It resembles cork in its texture.
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Velvet cork

  • the best kind of cork bark, supple, elastic, and not woody or porous.
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