Found 4 items, similar to cork.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: cork
gabus
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: cork
gabus, sumbat
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: cork
cork
v 1: close a bottle with a cork [syn:
cork up] [ant:
uncork]
2: stuff with cork;
“The baseball player stuffed his bat with
cork to make it lighter”
cork
n 1: outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles
etc.
2: (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead
cells [syn:
phellem]
3: a port city in southern Ireland
4: the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)
5: a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing
line [syn:
bob,
bobber,
bobfloat]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Cork
Cork
\Cork\ (k[^o]rk), n. [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.
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2. A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.
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3. A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in
greater or less abundance.
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Note: Cork is sometimes used wrongly for calk, calker;
calkin, a sharp piece of iron on the shoe of a horse or
ox.
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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.
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Cork
\Cork\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Corked (k[^o]rkt); p. pr. &
vb. n.
Corking.]
1. To stop with a cork, as a bottle.
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2. To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.
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Tread on corked stilts a prisoner's pace. --Bp.
Hall.
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Note: 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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